Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Wisdom, Learning, School

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• Most things, except agriculture, can wait

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  Agriculture, Waiting

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

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  Country, Color, Differences

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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

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  Mean, Eugenics, Democracy

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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  Inspirational, Peace, War

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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 that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• 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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  Eye, Ambition, Men

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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

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  Country, America, Firsts

  "The Traveling Curmudgeon: Irreverent Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes on Dismal Destinations, Excess Baggage, The Full Upright Position, and Other Reasons Not To Go There". Book by Jon Winokur, August 19, 2003.

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• 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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  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• 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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  Book, Thinking, Other Worlds

  "An Autobiography". Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1936.

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.

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  Adventure, Eye, Play

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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

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  Fuel Efficiency, Advantage, Type

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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

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  Freedom, Understanding, Democracy

  The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (p. 173), 1962.

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• What we need is a generation of peace.

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  Peace, Needs, Generations

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• 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.

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  Emotional, Order, People

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• 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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  Views, Giving, Fields

  "The Discovery of India". Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.

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• 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.

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  Country, Mind, Culture

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

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• 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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  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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

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  Eugenics, Way, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj”

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, People

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

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  Children, Fall, Caring

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• 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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  Flower, Sacrifice, Blood

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• 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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  Family, Heart, Unity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• 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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  Diversity, Brotherhood, Together

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

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