Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTheoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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There 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.
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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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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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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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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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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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