Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) was an Indian Prime Minister. She was the first woman prime minister of India. She was daughter of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. She was actively involved in the freedom struggle during her childhood. She was married to Feroze Gandhi and had two sons - one of them Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister of India in 1984 after she was assassinated.Wisdom & Quotes
- Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is. Opposition comes not only from your enemies but sometimes from your friends, and the latter is much more difficult to face. You have to have physical courage, because very often going along the path of your choice is full of physical hardship.
- Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.
- You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a pragmatist?
- It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.
- We would rather starve than sell our national honour.
- Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.
- Martyrdom does not end something; it is only the beginning.
- Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak, we are two.
- 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 assassins, not in my dying.
Jessica Mitford