Top 100 Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
#1. At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
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#3. America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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#4. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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#5. If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.
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#7. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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#8. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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#9. Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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#10. Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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#11. 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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#12. What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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#13. Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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#14. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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#15. 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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#17. It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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#18. The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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#19. All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
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#20. 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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#21. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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#22. Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
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#23. To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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#24. Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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#25. I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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#26. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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#28. In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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#29. I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.
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#30. Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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#31. But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.
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#33. You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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#34. Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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#35. Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
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#37. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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#38. 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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#39. Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
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#40. 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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#41. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
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#42. Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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#43. I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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#44. 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 throwT words at each other.
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#45. India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,
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#46. I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
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#47. 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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#48. I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.
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#49. Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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#50. I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#54. We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.
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#55. Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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#56. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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#57. Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
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#58. 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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#59. Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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#61. When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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#62. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.
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#63. 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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#64. No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded
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#65. 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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#66. As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
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#68. A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
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#69. The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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#70. We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
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#71. The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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#72. The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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#73. We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on ... Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise.A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.
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#74. It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
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#75. Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit
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#76. 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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#77. Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.
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#78. Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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#80. It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
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#81. Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
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#84. There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.
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#85. I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.
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#86. I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
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#87. It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
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#88. The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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#90. Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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#91. 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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#92. If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside
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#93. The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
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#95. Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
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#96. 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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#97. The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.
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#98. It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
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#99. Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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