No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India’s memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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.