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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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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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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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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 person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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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 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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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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 man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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