Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Culture, Birth

• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Mind, Culture

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mind, Culture, Spirit

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

• The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Song, Memories, Civilization

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

• In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Emotional, Order, People

• 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

  Civilization, Roots, Suffering

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches”

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