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Jawaharlal Nehru

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Country Fear Mental People Slave
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Place Reality Theory
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Forget Greatness Life Remember Thinking
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Flower Freedom Growth Need Ourselves Tears
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Change Face History Yourself
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
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Avoid Danger Distance People
What we need is a generation of peace.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Need Peace
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Citizenship Country Service
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
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 NEHRU

Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Each Other Men People Thinking Word
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Extraordinary Prison Value View Walk
A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Animal Country

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