Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
INDIRA GANDHIEven if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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Muslim women had to go out in purdah, that heavy sheet that covers even the eyes. Hindu women had to go out in the doli, a kind of closed sedan chair like a catafalque. My mother always told me about these things with bitterness and rage.
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I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger well, one must risk the danger.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Difficulties can’t be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them. The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It’s all right to fight, yes, but only when it’s possible.
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The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.
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The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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