By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUNo country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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A man who is afraid will do anything.
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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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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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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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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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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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To be successful in life what you need is education.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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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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