The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUSuccess often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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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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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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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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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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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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