Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUWhen you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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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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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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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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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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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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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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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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