You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere 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.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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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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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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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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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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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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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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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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