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Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Former Prime Minister of India

Jawaharlal Nehru served as the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964. A prominent leader in the Indian independence movement, he played a pivotal role in shaping the new nation's political and social landscape. Nehru was a philosopher, writer, and lawyer, and his vision for a secular, democratic, and modern India continues to influence the country's development.

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Famous Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

“All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.”

World Has Beens Said Today Together Nations Imagine Diversity Prosperity Disaster Brotherhood Isolated Imagine That Splits Fragments Unity In Diversity Indivisible

Book:India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961

Source: India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961

“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.”

Thinking Trying Years Has Beens Important Opportunity Discipline Prison Sensations

Author: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.”

Men May Long Has Beens Eye Suffering Generations Tears Ambition Wipe Our Generation Greatest Man

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“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.”

Has Beens Religion Evil Names Religious Millions Crime Fine Committed Deeds

Book:India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'

Source: India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'

“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.”

Has Beens Past Ocean Flow India Symbols Memorable

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“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.”

People Long Has Beens Age Song Culture Memories Victory Civilization Rivers India Rounds Defeat Symbols Triumph Beloved Intertwined Hopes And Fears

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

“Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.”

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.”

Long Has Beens Values Walks Views Behinds Appreciate Extraordinary Psychological Prisoner Confined

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India