Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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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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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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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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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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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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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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