Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes - Page 2

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

Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.

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

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

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

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.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

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

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

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

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

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

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

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

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