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Thinker · 7 quotes
7 sourced quotes by Indira Gandhi on peace, non-violence & conflict, democracy & freedom, women & gender, nation, unity & diversity, work, excellence & success, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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We believe in freedom with a passion that only those who have been denied it for so long can understand it, We believe in equality because so many in our nation have been denied for so long, we believe in human worth for that is the basis for all our current work in India.
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
The great need in the world today is for for nations to so define their national interest that it makes for greater harmony, greater equality and justice and greater stability in the world.
A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
My grandfather once told me that there are 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 there.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.