what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
INDIRA GANDHIThe 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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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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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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To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.
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I have certain objectives. They’re the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.
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Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
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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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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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