Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician, who served as the female Prime Minister of India for around 15 years across two spells and is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of South Asian politics. Gandhi was the first and till date, the only female Prime Minister of India and was known for her aggressive stance on a variety of issues.
Indira Gandhi is particularly famous for sending the Indian Army to East Pakistan in the 1971 war that eventually led to the creation of Bangladesh. Her domestic policies, while largely socialist in nature, made her the undisputed mass leader of the country. She remains the 2nd longest serving Prime Minister of India ever, just behind her father Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first ever Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi was extremely well known for her rousing speeches that she delivered all over the country.
Here is a collection of some inspirational quotes by Indira Gandhi:-
1.ON EDUCATION
“Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.”
2.ON FORGIVENESS
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
3.ON LEARN
“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.”
4.ON ANGER
“Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.”
5.ON FORGIVENESS
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
6.ON POLITICIAN
“There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.”
7.ON PEOPLE
“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.”
8.ON STRENGTH
“A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”
9.ON VIOLENCE
“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.”
10.ON PROGRESS
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
