Indira Gandhi Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
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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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“Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.”
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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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“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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“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”
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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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“Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.”
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“People with clenched fists can not shake hands.”
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“Life is a continuous process of adjustment.”
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“There is not love where there is no will.”
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“The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”
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“Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.”
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“My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.”
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“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”
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“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”
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“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
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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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“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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“My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.”
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“Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.”
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“The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.”
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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. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.”
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“To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.”
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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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“Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”
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“All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.”
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“The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.”
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