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.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople with clenched fists can not shake hands.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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I don’t see the world as something divided between right and left.
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I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
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You don’t help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.
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The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn’t mean I’m indoctrinated.
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A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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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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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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In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.
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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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Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.
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My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
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Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.
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It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
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