I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTo be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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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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That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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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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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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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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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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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.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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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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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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