Indira Gandhi

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

“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.”