Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTheoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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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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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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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.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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