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Indira Gandhi1917–1984

A nation’s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Indira Gandhi on power

“Preface, 4th Five Year Plan”, Government of India Planning Commission (July 18, 1970).

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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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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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