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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
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
What we need is a generation of peace.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
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.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
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.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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.
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.
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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
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.
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
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
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,
A theory must be tempered with reality.
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.
A country is known by the way it treats its animals
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
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