Jawaharlal Nehru quotes - page 4

Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. View quote
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Religion merges into mysticism and metaphysics and philosophy. There have been great mystics, attractive figures, who cannot easily be disposed of as self-deluded fools. View quote
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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. View quote
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Essentially I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life. View quote
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She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive. View quote
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Whether we believe in God or not, it is impossible not to believe in something, whether we call it a creative life-giving force, or vital energy inherent in matter which gives it its capacity for self-movement and change and growth, or by some other name, something that is as real, though elusive, as life is real when contrasted with death. View quote
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The danger to India, mark you, is not Communism. It is Hindu right-wing communalism. View quote
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He must be checked. We want no Caesars. View quote
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The very processes of marshaling the world into two hostile camps precipitates the conflict that it had sought to avoid. View quote
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India is supposed to be a religious country above everything else, and Hindu and Muslim and Sikh and others take pride in their faiths and testify to their truth by breaking heads. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. View quote
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Organised religion allying itself to theology and often more concerned with its vested interests than with the things of the spirit encourages a temper which is the very opposite of science. View quote
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But there is something also in the reverse proposition: even if God exist, it may be desirable not to look up to Him or to rely upon Him. Too much dependence on supernatural forces may lead, and has often led, to loss of self-reliance in man, and to a blunting of his capacity and creative ability. View quote
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Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation. View quote
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In some cases certainly it was something more. View quote
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The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor ... What is behind that mask of his? View quote
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War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. View quote
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We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people. View quote
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The discovery of India - what have I discovered? View quote
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. (Jawaharlal Nehru)
I want to go rapidly towards my objective. But fundamentally even the results of action do not worry me so much. Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. View quote
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It was the essential freedom from dogma and the scientific outlook of Marxism that appealed to me. View quote
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Many a Congressman was a communalist under his national cloak. View quote
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The touchstone, therefore, should be how far any political or social theory enables the individual to rise above his petty self and thus think in terms of the good of all. The law of life should not be competition or acquisitiveness but cooperation, the good of each contributing to the good of all. View quote
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