Quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

Never do anything in secret or anything that you would wish to hide. For the desire to hide anything means that you are afraid, and fear is a bad thing and unworthy of you. Be brave, and all the rest follows.

Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth and Hind Swaraj, Rabindranath Tagore's Nationalism and Gora, and Jawaharlal's Nehru's An Autobiography—is The Discovery of India.

As Schopenhauer says, 'a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded.

Philosophy is a dangerous thing for any dogmatic religion; it makes people think.

But corpses cannot easily be overlooked; they come in the way.

produced. In any event, criticism and cavilling at minorities does not help. It is difficult to think of long-term policies when the situation is an ever-changing one. The only real long-term policy we can have is to consolidate India by making all the minorities in the

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.

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

Discontent is the spur of progress.

reality, when calmly analysed and its consequences willingly accepted, loses much of its terror.

Truth is one: (though) the wise call it by various names.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

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

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.