I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUAct with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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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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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere.
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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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Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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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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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Socialism is not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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I 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.
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The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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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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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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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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A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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