Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian independence activist, and subsequently, the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. We have selected Jawaharlal Nehru quotes for our readers.
Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Inspirational Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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
A theory must be tempered with reality.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
A country is known by the way it treats its animals
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Greatest Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Positive Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Socialism is… not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Great causes and little men go ill together.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
I am the last Englishman to rule in India.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
A man who is afraid will do anything.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
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 fancies that have moulded them
– Jawaharlal Nehru
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Life Changing Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The light has gone out of our lives… Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light… and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it… For that light represented the living truth.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Top Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Selected Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The only alternative to coexistence is codstruction.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
What we need is a generation of peace.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
– Jawaharlal Nehru
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
– Jawaharlal Nehru