Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The wheel of change moves on and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Man's dearest possession in life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as not…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America…

— Jawaharlal Nehru