Top 100 Nehru's Quotes
#1. The fact that Nehru had risked his life to save a single Moslem had a profound effect far beyond New Delhi. Many thousands of Moslems who had intended to flee to Pakistan now stayed in India, staking their lives on Nehru's ability to protect them and assure them justice. In
Shashi Tharoor
#2. The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.
Subramanian Swamy
#3. Jawaharlal Nehru's first Cabinet list set a standard that would never again be matched, while establishing a precedent for diversity that all his successors would strive to emulate. A
Shashi Tharoor
#4. Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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#5. Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
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#9. I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
Narendra Modi
#10. India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,
Jawaharlal Nehru
#11. 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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#12. Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
Shashi Tharoor
#13. 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.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#14. Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
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#18. 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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#19. Successive governments in India have not been able to get out of the chakravyuh created by Jawaharlal Nehru in J&K.
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#20. Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#22. I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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#23. 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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#24. Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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#25. You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
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#27. 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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#28. Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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#29. 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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#30. Let people become the persons they want to be, not the person you want them to be.
Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
#31. 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.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#32. We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!
V.S. Naipaul
#33. They'd rather see me fail than succeed,
That's why I'm alone on my own with no team.
Don't need no green, though I got some to spend;
In the end ... all I really need is a friend.
Bishop Nehru
#34. 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.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
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#40. There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
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#41. Thus, both Mountbatten and Nehru stipulated that the ultimate fate of Kashmir should be settled 'by reference to the people', and on 2 November Nehru broadcast on All India Radio that 'we are prepared when peace and law and order have been established to have a referendum'.
Katherine Frank
#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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#45. Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
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#46. 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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#48. 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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#49. When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
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#50. 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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#51. I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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#52. Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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#53. 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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#54. Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
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#55. 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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#56. 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
#57. It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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#59. 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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#60. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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#61. 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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#62. What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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#63. 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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#64. Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
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#65. 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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#66. Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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#67. One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.
Jack Weatherford
#68. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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#70. 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.
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#71. I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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#76. 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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#79. The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
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#80. 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.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#81. My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress is in our blood and as a loyalist, I am always there for Congress.
Sanjay Dutt
#82. Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. The National Herald, founded by Jawaharlal Nehru, supported the Emergency throughout, and cautiously removed the quote 'Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might' from its masthead.
Coomi Kapoor
#84. Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#85. 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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#87. It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
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#88. 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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#89. But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.
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#90. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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#91. I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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#92. Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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#93. To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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#95. Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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#96. 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
#97. Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#98. Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
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#99. Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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#100. 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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