I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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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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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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