The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. — Jawaharlal Nehru
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I have become a queer mixture of the east and the west, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. — Jawaharlal Nehru
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger — Jawaharlal Nehru
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress — Jawaharlal Nehru
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. — Jawaharlal Nehru
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. — Jawaharlal Nehru
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new — Jawaharlal Nehru