Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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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.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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