Indira Gandhi Quotes

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people … I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

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.

I am not a person to be pressured – by anybody or any nation.

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.

I don’t mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people’s problems.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading… freedom struggles and so on.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty – on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

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.