Quotes by Dzsaváharlál Néhrú

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The man who endeavors to conceal his weaknesses with pompous phrases and noble principles, involuntarily arouses your suspicions.

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Wounds inflicted by one's own hand are always harder to heal than those inflicted by the enemy.

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Freedom must be judged by the measure of the freedom of the weakest.

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War is a denial of truth and humanity. It consists not only in the killing of men, for man dies one way or another, but in the thorough and persistent spreading of hatred and falsehood, which little by little take root in men.

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If you find yourself in a crisis or a dead end, it definitely has one advantage: it forces you to think.

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Life is like a card game. The cards you're dealt are given, but how you play them is free will.

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The biggest risk lies in being too cautious.

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Who we really are means more than what others think we are.

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There is something calm and eternal about the past, it does not change, and it has the touch of eternity, like a painting, bronze or marble statue. Unaffected by the storms and upheavals of the present, it preserves its dignity and bearing, tempting the troubled soul and the tortured spirit to flee into the vaulted catacombs of the past. There is peace and safety.

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The past (...) is always with us, what we are and what we have comes from the past. We are His creations and we live immersed in Him. If we do not interpret and feel the past as something living within us, then we do not understand the present. The connection of the past with the present, its extension into the future, the separation from it where this connection is impossible, and the creation of the pulsating, vibrating substance of thought and action from all this - this is life.

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The tortured spirit seeks an escape mechanism, the senses are dulled by repeated shocks, and one feels that the world is overshadowed by so many troubles and misfortunes that a little more or less does not matter. There is only one thing left that cannot be taken from us: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to our ideals, which give meaning to life.

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It is possible that we, who are so proud of the achievements of our day, are prisoners of our time, just as the ancient man or the men and women of the Middle Ages were of their time. We can mislead ourselves, as others have done before us, into believing that we alone see things correctly and that only our path leads to the truth.

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How fascinating the human spirit is! Although man has failed countless times, since time immemorial he has sacrificed his life and everything dear to him again and again for an ideal, for truth, for faith, for his country and for his honor. The ideal may change, but the willingness to sacrifice remains, and that is why a person can be forgiven for many things, and it is impossible to lose faith in a person.

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Under the weight of adversity, man cannot lose his dignity, nor his faith in the values ​​that are dear to him. The toy of the majestic forces of nature, smaller than a speck of dust in the infinite universe, nevertheless threw a fit against the elemental forces, and the human brain, the cradle of changes, scrambled to tame them. Whatever the gods are, there is something divine in man, but there is also something of the devil in him.

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Only science can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, lack of hygiene and illiteracy, superstition and habits and traditions leading to hopelessness, the waste of immeasurable resources, the impossibility of a rich country being inhabited by starving people.

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When someone is 70 years old, they don't like to remember their years anymore. I can't avoid my birthdays, but at least I can avoid the people who remind me of the passing of the years.