The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUSlogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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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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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
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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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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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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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It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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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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