black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Culture 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Home Identity Myself Place
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Control Himself Man Peace
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Afraid Change Ignorance One Liner
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 NEHRU

History Victory Writing
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
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Destruction Existence Philosophy
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Fear Friendship Past Truth
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Death Defeat Preparation
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Boundary Democracy Equality Greatness Revolution
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Freedom Justice Place
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.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Bad Dangerous Fear Life
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Peace People
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
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Economy Force Poor Rich

Culture 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Culture 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes