The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUGreat causes and little men go ill together.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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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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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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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 country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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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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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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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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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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 can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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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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We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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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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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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