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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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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 future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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