It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIn 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.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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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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The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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