It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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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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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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