Indira Gandhi
Statesman
1917-11-19
Quotes by Indira Gandhi
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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
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All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.
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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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I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. 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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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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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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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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I'm certainly not a workaholic.
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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. Opposition comes not only from your enemies but sometimes from your friends, and the latter is much more difficult to face. You have to have physical courage, because very often going along the path of your choice is full of physical hardship.
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Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
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Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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Martyrdom does not end something; it is only the beginning.
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