"The Indians and Pakistanis are literally brothers."
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"[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction."
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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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"When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more."
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"The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated."
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"The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution."
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"Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave."
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"To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable."
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"Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources."
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"Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power."
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"I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother."
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"You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work."
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"It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us."
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"Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness."
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"If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home."
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"Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know."
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"I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool."
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"I certainly won't have an empty life!"
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"By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism."
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"To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together."
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