Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhiand ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964. Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic. During his lifetime, he was popularly known as Pandit Nehru ("Scholar Nehru") or as Panditji("Respected Scholar"), while many Indian children knew him as "Uncle Nehru" (Chacha Nehru)    WIKI

1) We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

2) There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

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

4) Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

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

6) The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

7) A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have molded them

8) Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

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

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

11) There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

13) If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside.

14) There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open

15) Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

16) Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

17) 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.

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