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.”

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

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

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

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

“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”

“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.”

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

“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.”

“Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.”

“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

“Every little thing counts in a crisis.”

“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”

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

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.”

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

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”

“Great causes and little men go ill together.”

“Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.”

“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”