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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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  Views, Giving, Fields

  "The Discovery of India". Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.

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• Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

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  Flower, Sacrifice, Blood

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• All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. 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.

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  Diversity, Brotherhood, Together

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961”

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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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  Blind Belief, Atheism, India

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1989). “Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India”, Vintage

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

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  Children, Fall, Caring

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• Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

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  Needs, Revolution, Bases

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• I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

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  India, Lasts, Englishmen

  Quoted in John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times (1981)

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• Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.

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  Men, Thinking, People

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• Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others.

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  Dark, People, Mind

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

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• Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

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  Peace, War, Serenity

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• The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

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  Country, Light, Years

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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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  Epic, Race, Greatest Treasure

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• Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

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  Hard Work, Democracy, Problem

  The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (p. 173), 1962.

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• India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.

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  Choices, India, May

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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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  Song, Memories, Civilization

  Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarvepalli Gopal (1980). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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  Struggle, Mind, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

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  Views, Long, Appreciate

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1955). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India”

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• Every little thing counts in a crisis.

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  Littles, Little Things, Crisis

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

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  Attitude, Not Good Enough, Agitation

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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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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  Civilization, Roots, Suffering

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches”

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• What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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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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  Pain, Passion, Maturity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1961). “The Quintessence of Nehru”

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• I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Integrity

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• Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.

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  Science, Technology, Government

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1964). “Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

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  Acting, Habit, Claims

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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