The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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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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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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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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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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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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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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