Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUDo not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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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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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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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 successful in life what you need is education.
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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 now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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