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Quotes from Glimpses of World History — Jawaharlal Nehru

1889–1964 India

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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)

Communism meant the end of emperor-worship, and feudalism and the exploitation of the masses by the ruling class, and indeed almost everything that the existing order stood for.

Glimpses of World History (1934)

I shall tell you just a few odd facts which might interest you. The educational system in Russia is supposed by many competent judges to be the best and most up-to-date in existence.

Glimpses of World History (1934)

They fought because they were paid for it; they were not interested very much in the conquest of Greece. The Athenians on the other hand, fought for their freedom. They preferred to die rather than lose their freedom, and those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Glimpses of World History (1934)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.