Indira Gandhi Quotes

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
INDIRA GANDHI

Atheist Eat Existence Memorable Women
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 GANDHI

Birth Control Mean Men
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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Cancer Father Live People
The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.
INDIRA GANDHI

Earth Peace
in today’s world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
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Country Independent Philosophy World
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Death Fight Mother Time
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
INDIRA GANDHI

Game Politics
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
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Change Design Pioneers Rebel
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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Different Intellectual Mind Philosophy Practice
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.
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Democracy River Women
I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.
INDIRA GANDHI

Fall In Love Myself
Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.
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Danger Myself Thinking
I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.
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Job Mom Perfection
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
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Life Myself One Liner Process
Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.
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Deep Forget Silence
To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.
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Desire Function Politics
Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.
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Forget Goddess Strength
Ability is not always gauged by examination.
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Ability Examination
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.
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Art Politics Power
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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Father Ideas Mindset
I’m trained to difficulties; difficulties can’t be eliminated from life.
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Difficult Life Training
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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Money Motivational Oneself
The future doesn’t frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.
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Difficult Future Scare
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
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Appreciate Diversity Endurance Justice Logic
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
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Believe Hope Life Purpose
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Evil Existance Justice Struggle
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.
INDIRA GANDHI

Age Beginning Myself Travel

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