Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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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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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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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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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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.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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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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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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History 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.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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