We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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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.
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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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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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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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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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