Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

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.
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Each Other Men People Thinking Word
When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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Enemy Liability Yourself
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.
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Comfortable Leadership Thinking Trouble
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.
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Genius Greatness Language Live Poetry
To be successful in life what you need is education.
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Eduaction Life Need Success Yourself
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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Dangerous Energy Harm Hate Life Limitation Mindset Ourselves Truth
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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Democracy Freedom Understand Worst
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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Act Courage Ideal Life Oneself
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Citizenship Country Service
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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Freedom Game Hands Life Play Willing Yourself
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Destruction Existence Philosophy
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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Resistence Weakness
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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Country Fear Mental People Slave
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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Age Destiny Greatness Love Man Peace
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
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Face Heart Mindset Togetherness Unity
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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Freedom Justice Place
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
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Art Mindset Mirror People True
People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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Action Avoid Danger Distance People
Those who boast are seldom the great.
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Attitude Greatness One Liner
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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Evil Growth Poison Tolerance
What we need is a generation of peace.
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Need Peace
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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Afraid Man One Liner Reaction
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Dream Peace Worth
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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Beginning Books Religion Thinking Time World
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Greatness Man Sick Togetherness
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History Human Mindset Spirit Struggle
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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Mindset Restriction Spirit

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