The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUFacts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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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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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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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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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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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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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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