Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964), also known as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was a freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India during 1947-1964.Wisdom & Quotes
- The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
- Its (communism's) unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
- Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
- Socialism is …not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
- The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
- I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
- For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light.
- Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
- Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
- 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.
- 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.
- Those who boast are seldom the great.
- Great causes and little men go ill together.
- 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.
- Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
- Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
- The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
- It is a fundamental rule of human life that, if the approach is good, the response is good.
- You don't change the course of history by turning the face of portraits to the wall.
- Blindness in a leader is unpardonable.
- Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
- Every little thing counts in a crisis.
- 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.
- Crises and deadlocks, when they occur, have at least this advantage: that they force us to think.
- In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
- It is strange that anyone should be so foolish as to think that religion and faith can be thrust down a person's throat at the point of the sword or a bayonet.
- Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
- It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.
- Success often comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
- Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
- 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 vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
- 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 throw words at each other.
Gabriela Mistral