The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUI do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUPeace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIt 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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUI 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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTime is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUAmerica is a country no one should go to for the first time.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUYou don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTheoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUCrises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThere is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUAs fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUCulture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUHistory 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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUThe forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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