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.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

— Jawaharlal Nehru
Inspirational for Women

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

— Jawaharlal Nehru
About Children School About Kids Growing Up Inspirational for Teachers

To be successful in life what you need is education.

— Jawaharlal Nehru
Education Encouraging for Students

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A tyrst with destiny – A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

— Jawaharlal Nehru
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