Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.”

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

“Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.”

“Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can c...”

“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”

“Great causes and little men go ill together.”

“Every little thing counts in a crisis.”

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

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

“The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.”

“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”

“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”

“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.”

“A theory must be tempered with reality.”

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”