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 More Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru More Quotes From Jawaharlal Nehru The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing. Jawaharlal Nehru democracies-have diversity justice The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga. Jawaharlal Nehru song memories civilization Often in history we see that religion, which was meant to raise us and make us better and nobler, has made people behave like beasts. Instead of bringing enlightenment of them, it has often tried to keep them in the dark; instead of broadening their minds, it has frequently made them narrow-minded and intolerant of others. Jawaharlal Nehru mind dark people Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. Jawaharlal Nehru inspirational giving long Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about. Jawaharlal Nehru victory fighting war America is a country no one should go to for the first time. Jawaharlal Nehru country america firsts ...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. Jawaharlal Nehru destiny suicide death We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought. Jawaharlal Nehru narrow-mindedness nations people The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. Jawaharlal Nehru foundation spiritual views 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 powerful sleep long Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it. Jawaharlal Nehru unity family heart India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age Jawaharlal Nehru maturity passion pain There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action. Jawaharlal Nehru stupidity action Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. Jawaharlal Nehru truth humble thinking It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth. Jawaharlal Nehru twists hatred mind 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. Jawaharlal Nehru independence dawn sight Great causes and little men go ill together. Jawaharlal Nehru causes together men It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. Jawaharlal Nehru habit acting claims What is history, indeed, but a record of change? Jawaharlal Nehru records 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. Jawaharlal Nehru taken sticks inspirational
