- Great causes and little men go ill together.
- Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
- Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today. Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.
- “those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”
- We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people.
- 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.
- Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
- The policy India has sought to pursue is not a negative and neutral policy. It is a positive and vital policy that flows from our struggle for freedom and from the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Peace is not only an absolute necessity for us in India in order to progress and develop but also of paramount importance to the world.
- There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
- Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you’ve gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
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Quotes- Jawaharlal Nehru
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