Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUMost of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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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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