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.
INDIRA GANDHIThere are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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It’s not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn’t be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
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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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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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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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