Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWe can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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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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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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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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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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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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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What we need is a generation of peace.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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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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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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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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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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