Indira Gandhi Quotes

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

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.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

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.

This is why we feel that democracy’s important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

I don’t think my father was my mentor.

Life is a continuous process of adjustment.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

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.

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?