Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards.The hand you are dealt is determinism;
The way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Discovery of India' by Jawaharlal Nehru.
— Thota Ramesh
Great causes and little men go ill together.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Most things, except agriculture, can wait
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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
Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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
I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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
A man who is afraid will do anything.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Those who boast are seldom the great.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
A theory must be tempered with reality.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
What we need is a generation of peace.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
— Jawaharlal Nehru
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
What is history, indeed, but a record of change?
— Jawaharlal Nehru
One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.
— Jack Weatherford
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Play the hand you're dealt.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.
— Manmohan Singh
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
