No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUCulture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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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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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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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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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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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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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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