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A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

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

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

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

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

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

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.

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

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.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

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

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

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

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.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

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

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

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.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

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

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

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.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth.

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.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

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.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

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

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Those who boast are seldom the great.

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

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

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Play the hand you're dealt.

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

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

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