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If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
My chief reason for wishing to go to Oxford is [that] Cambridge is becoming too full of Indians.
Every little thing counts in a crisis and we want our weight felt and our voice heard in quarters which are for the avoidance of world conflict.
Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches 1949 - 1953 (1954)
The most effective pose is one in which there seems to be the least of posing, and Jawahar had learned well to act without the paint and powder of an actor ... What is behind that mask of his?
Article in Modern Review (1936)
She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.
The Discovery of India (1946)
F.T. Brooks left a deep impress upon me and I feel that I owe a debt to him and to Theosophy.
The discovery of India — what have I discovered?
The Discovery of India (1946)
In times of crisis it is not unnatural for those who are involved in it deeply to regard calm objectivity in others as irrational, short-sighted, negative, unreal or even unmanly.
Speech at Columbia University (1949)
Communalism resulted not only in the division of the country, which inflicted a deep wound in the heart of the people which will take a long time to heal if it ever heals but also assassination of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
Speech to the US Congress (1949)
If we open the door [to the Bengali Hindu refugees], we all will sink.
Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
We have laid down in our constitution that India is a secular state. That does not mean irreligion. it means equal respect for all faiths and equal opportunities for those who profess any faith.
Muslims who came to India from outside brought no new technique or political or economic structure.
The Discovery of India (1946)
As President of the Akademi, I may tell you quite frankly I would not like the Prime Minister to interfere with my work.
Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)
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.
The Discovery of India (1946)
The danger to India, mark you, is not Communism. It is Hindu right-wing communalism.
There is a terrible misery in Japan at present. The peasantry, as in China and India, are crushed under a tremendous burden of debt.
Glimpses of World History (1934)
Nobody need get upset over the recent developments in Tibet... I would like to repeat that one of the foremost interests of India is cultivation of friendly relations with her neighbours, especially China and Tibet.
You know that I have had strong leanings towards Communism and have many friends among Communists.