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.
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.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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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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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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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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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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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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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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