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 NEHRUThat great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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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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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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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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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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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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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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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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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