Indira Gandhi Quotes - Page 4

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• in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Independent, World

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

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  Mood, Shows, Know How

  Source: sangam.org

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• Sometimes we hurt one another without realizing it.

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  Hurt, Sometimes, Realizing

  Source: sangam.org

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• To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

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  Politics, Function, Desirable

  Indira Gandhi, Som Benegal (1976). “Freedom is the starting point: a collection of memorable words”

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• Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

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  Jew, Revolt

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• We would rather starve than sell our national honor.

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  Patriotism, Honor, Sells

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• 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

  Mean, Men, Birth Control

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

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  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically and mentally, and should not be brought into the world only to suffer.

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  Children, Taken, Rights

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

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  Baby, Men, Dolls

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I learned very soon to get along by myself.

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  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

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  Believe, I Believe, Nations

  Source: sangam.org

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• I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

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  Children, Father, Party

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

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  Writing, Letters, Difficult

  Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Norman (1985). “Indira Gandhi, letters to an American friend 1950-1984”, Harcourt

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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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  Play, Upset, Victim

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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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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  Helping, Developing, Nations

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• I don't see the world as something divided between right and left.

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  World, Divided, Left

  Source: sangam.org

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• Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

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  Brave, Virtue

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• Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

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  Views, Fleeting, Point Of View

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life.

  Indira Gandhi

  Difficulty

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

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  People, Stupidity, Excited

  Source: sangam.org

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• For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

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  Years, India, Poverty

  Source: sangam.org

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• Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

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  Thinking, Life Is, Danger

  Source: sangam.org

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• Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

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  Reality, Doe, Ends

  Indira Gandhi, Dhiren Mullick (1972). “Indira Speaks on Genocide War and Bangladesh”, Calcutta : Academic Publishers

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• I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

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  Jobs, Indulge In, Done

  Source: sangam.org

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