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.

Great causes and little men go ill together

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

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

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

When?

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a...

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

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

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

Its [Communism’s] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.