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.
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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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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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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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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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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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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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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When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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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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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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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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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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