Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.
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If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded
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Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
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The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
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History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
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Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.
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Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
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There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
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Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
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The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.
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At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.
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I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
- Born: November 14, 1889
- Died: May 27, 1964
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of India
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