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We must constantly remind ourselves that whatever our religion or creed, we are all one people.
Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Parliamentary Debates [Parliament of India] Pt.2 V.12-13 (1951)
Peace is not only an absolute necessity for us in India in order to progress and develop but also of paramount importance to the world.
Speech at Columbia University (1949)
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
Speech at Columbia University (1949)
These people [the RSS] have the blood of Mahatma Gandhi on their hands and pious disclaimers and dissociation now have no meaning.
We have done no better thing than this [agreeing that Tibet belongs to China] since we became independent.
Nehru to the Indian Parliament (1954)
Every war waged by imperialist powers will be an imperialist war whatever the excuses put forward; therefore we must keep out of it.
Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.
Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches 1949 - 1953 (1954)
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective.
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 Tryst With Destiny (1947)
Freedom and power bring responsibility.
A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
My intention was to trace, as far as I could, my own mental development and not write a survey of recent Indian history.
An Autobiography (1936)
The very processes of marshaling the world into two hostile camps precipitates the conflict that it had sought to avoid.
Speech at Columbia University (1949)
Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
A Tryst With Destiny (1947)
The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human.
The Discovery of India (1946)
The light has gone out, I said and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light.
The Light Has Gone Out (1948)
Future peace, security and ordered progress of the world demand a world federation of free nations, and on no other basis can the problems of the world be solved.
Manu Bhagavan (2013)
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.