Every little thing counts in a crisis.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThat great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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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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India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
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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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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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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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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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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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