You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThose who boast are seldom the great.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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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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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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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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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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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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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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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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