Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIndia cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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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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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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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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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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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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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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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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