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Slogans 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Control Himself Man Peace
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Mistake Ourselves Talk
Peace 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 NEHRU

Absence Mindset Nation Peace Relationship Soul War
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Efficient Existence Material
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Enemy Liability Yourself
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Mindset Restriction Spirit
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Absence Mindset Peace War
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Freedom Justice Place
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Action Myself Right Satisfaction
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Myself Place Reality Theory
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Failure Forget Ideal Ourselves Principle
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Choice Face Problem
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Act Afraid Dare Success
The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Life Light Live Ourselves See Truth World Wrong
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

Failure Ourselves Weakness

Slogans 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.

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Slogans 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.

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