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

What we need is a generation of peace.

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

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not...

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

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country...

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds

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

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

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....

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

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

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

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

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

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as...

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

The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

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

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

Every little thing counts in a crisis

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

America is a country no one should go to for the first time

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us....

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems,

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded...

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

It is a fundamental rule of human life that, if the approach is good, the response is good

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

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.

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

A man who is afraid will do anything.

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...

Every little thing counts in a crisis.