Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Essentially I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life. Whether there is such a thing as soul, or whether there is survival after death or not, I do not know; and important as these questions are, they do not trouble me the least.
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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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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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 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. In his death he has reminded us of the big things of life, the living truth, and if we remember that, then it will be well with India.
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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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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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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
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Freedom and power bring responsibility.
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If in the modern world wars have unfortunately to be fought (and they do, it seems) then they must be stopped at the first possible moment, otherwise they corrupt us, they create new problems and make our future even more uncertain. That is more than morality; it's sense.
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Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today. Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.
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Great causes and little men go ill together.
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Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.