Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

What we need is a generation of peace.

As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

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.

A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

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

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

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.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

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

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

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

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.

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.

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.