Nehru Quotes

I follow the ideology of Gandhi and Nehru.

— Nagma

As a nation builder, Nehru was a complete failure.

— Subramanian Swamy

I have always held the Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress in very high esteem.

— Shatrughan Sinha

Jawaharlal Nehru did a huge amount for education in India.

— Abhijit Banerjee

I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand…

— Malcolm X

Like many free market economists, with whom he had little else in common, Nehru seemed to believe that people will find a…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

— Manmohan Singh

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's…

— Malcolm X

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an…

— Nandan Nilekani

I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

“Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was ‘neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service’.”

— Shashi Tharoor

“One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.”

— Jack Weatherford

The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the…

— Subramanian Swamy

The Nehru years were rather very peaceful years. A lot happened in those years: dams were built, five-year plans were made, Chandigarh…

— Ruskin Bond

Prime ministers with full majority have behaved differently from each other. Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader who ruled by consensus while Indira…

— Sanjaya Baru

India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is…

— Malcolm X

Bose did not die in 1945. It is wrong. It is a conspiracy of Nehru and the Japanese. Subhash Chandra Bose sought…

— Subramanian Swamy

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the…

— Shashi Tharoor

After a decade in power, rather than showcasing their achievements, the Modi government is busy dredging up the past, pointing fingers at…

— M. K. Stalin

“Patel took on the responsibility of bringing into the Indian Union 565 princely states, steering efforts by his "iron fist in a…

— Indian History Editorial Board

“No one in Washington had apparently been considering Nehru’s visit as anything but one of courtesy.” After all, President Harry S. Truman…

— Anonymous

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to…

— Laura Kipnis

“On his return, Pandit Nehru stopped in Calcutta. The first letter he wrote on his China experience was to Edwina Mountbatten, and…

— K. Natwar Singh

“No, my dear. Leave poor Hari Kumar to work out his own salvation, if he’s still alive to work it out and…

— Paul Scott

“But his opinion that Sonia should enter politics was also based on his conviction that without a Nehru-Gandhi family member at the…

— Sanjaya Baru

“In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO…

— Ramachandra Guha

“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form…

— Shashi Tharoor

I could have joined politics during Nehru's or Indira Gandhi's time. I don't want to. I stay away from these things.

— Milkha Singh

For decades, the Congress party has used its power to make Nehru appear as a giant, rendering all other political personalities small…

— Subramanian Swamy

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech…

— Pranab Mukherjee

It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

— Shekhar Kapur

I have worked very hard with Nehru. I told him he should be the light of Asia, to show all those millions…

— Winston Churchill

“On his return, Pandit Nehru stopped in Calcutta. The first letter he wrote on his China experience was to Edwina Mountbatten, and…

— K. Natwar Singh

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition…

— Pankaj Mishra

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future…

— Graham Farmelo