39 Thought Provoking Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

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

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

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

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

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

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

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

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

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

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.