We can’t encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRULoyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
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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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Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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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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The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
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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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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
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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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