Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Prime Minister after her father...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1917
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
There is not love where there is no will.
Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
what is popular need not necessarily be right or wise.
The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.
in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.
We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible
How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?
The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.
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.