I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
INDIRA GANDHIHow can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
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Now I don’t get upset by unpleasant things, I don’t play the victim, and I’m always ready to come to terms with life.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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There are only moments of happiness – from contentment to ecstacy.
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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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Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
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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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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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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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I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.
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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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