The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIn the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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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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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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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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