The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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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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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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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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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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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 Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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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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