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 NEHRUNo country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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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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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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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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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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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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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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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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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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