By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUYou don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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 live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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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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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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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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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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