The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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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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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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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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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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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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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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