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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUUnity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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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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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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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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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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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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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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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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