The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere 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.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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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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You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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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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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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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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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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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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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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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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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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