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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUAs fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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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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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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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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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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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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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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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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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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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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Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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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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