Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWhere freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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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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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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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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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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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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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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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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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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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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