Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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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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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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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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Freedom and power bring responsibility.
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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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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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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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During his various speeches; taken from: 'The Muslims of India: A Documentary Record', A.G. Noorani ; Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches Vol. 3 (1953-1957); Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru Vol. 7.
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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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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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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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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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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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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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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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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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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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Great causes and little men go ill together.