Quotes by Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the fourth Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. Indira Gandhi was the only child of the first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father's highly centralised administration between 1947 and 1964 and came to wield considerable unofficial influence in government. In 2001, Gandhi was voted the greatest Indian Prime Minister in a poll organised by India Today. She was also named "Woman of the Millennium" in a poll organised by the BBC in 1999.

Just like her father, Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955, Indira Gandhi also, while she was Prime Minister, recommended herself and received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna in 1971 whilst serving as Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions. The Indira Awaas Yojana, a central government low-cost housing programme for the rural poor, is named after her. The international airport at New Delhi is named Indira Gandhi International Airport in her honour. The Indira Gandhi National Open University, the largest university in the world, is also named after her. Indian National Congress established the annual Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration in 1985, given in her memory on her death anniversary. The Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust also constituted the annual Indira Gandhi Prize.

Here are the Quotes by Indira Gandhi (Famous People) 

• There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
• The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
• Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
• Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
• My grandfather once told me that there were 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.
• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
• If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
• My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

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