Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

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

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

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

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

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

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

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

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

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.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

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

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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.

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

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.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

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

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

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

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

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

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.

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

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

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.

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

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.

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

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

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

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.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

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

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

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

Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.