Quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized, on this earth, capable of becoming true man, master of his fate and captain of his soul.

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

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

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

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

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences

We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on ....Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise.A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.

And yet fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than reality itself, and reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Whatever gods there be, there is something godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.