How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
INDIRA GANDHIForgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Even 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.
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To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice – I savored every minute of those years.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.
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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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
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When it’s impossible, it’s better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.
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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’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage – courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.
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Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women’s movements of the time; she stirred up a lot of revolts. She was a great woman, a great figure. Women today would like her immensely.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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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.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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