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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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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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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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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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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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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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