Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUObviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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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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What we need is a generation of peace.
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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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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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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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