The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it’s by no means dreadful.
INDIRA GANDHIPeople with clenched fists can not shake hands.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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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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The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.
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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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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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.
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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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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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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 am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.
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The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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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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The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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In all communities you find groups that behave badly. But you must understand them too.
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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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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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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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