Jawaharlal Nehru on life
Jawaharlal Nehru101 quotes“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.”
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru 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 NehruJawaharlal Nehru When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru To be successful in life what you need is education.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru 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 NehruJawaharlal Nehru Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru 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.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru 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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