That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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