You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUOnly a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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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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By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
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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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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
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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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