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.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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