The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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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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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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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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I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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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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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
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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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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
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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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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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