J L Nehru Quotes

#1. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#2. During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future of the new republic of India. After his usual reflective pause, Dirac replied: 'A common language, preferably English. Peace with Pakistan. The metric system.

Graham Farmelo

#3. Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#4. Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#5. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#6. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#7. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#8. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#9. Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#10. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#11. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Nandan Nilekani

#12. It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#13. The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#14. Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#15. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#16. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#17. What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#19. Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#20. Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#21. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#22. One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.

Jack Weatherford

#23. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#24. Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#25. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#26. I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#27. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#28. 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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#29. America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#30. A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Jawaharlal Nehru