The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUHistory 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.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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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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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The 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.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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