Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUA country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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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.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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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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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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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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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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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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I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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