Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.

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

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

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

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to understand things.

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

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand 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

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded them

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.