There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHINow 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.
More Indira Gandhi Quotes
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Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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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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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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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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You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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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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Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it – otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.
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I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.
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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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Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
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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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