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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUIgnorance is always afraid of change.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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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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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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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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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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Those who boast are seldom the great.
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That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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