Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it...

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

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

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

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

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

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form...

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

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

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

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.

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

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

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to unders...

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

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

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.