There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUYou can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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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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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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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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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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