"Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy."
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Indira Gandhi quotes (page 3 of 13)
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"Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied."
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"Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us."
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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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"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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"There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy."
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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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"I learned very soon to get along by myself."
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"Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change."
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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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"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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"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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"Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity."
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"My theory is that men are no more liberated than women."
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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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"As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves."
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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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"Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men."
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"Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful."
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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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