Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.”

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

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

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