Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUPlay the hand you’re dealt.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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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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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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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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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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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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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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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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