List of Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

It Is Fitting That At This Solemn Moment We Take The Pledge Of Dedication To The Service Of India And Her People And To The Still Larger Cause Of Human Ity.

If In The Modern World Wars Have Unfortunately To Be Fought (and They Do, It Seems) Then They Must Be Stopped At The First Possible Moment, Otherwise They Corrupt Us, They Create New Problems And Make Our Future Even More Uncertain. That Is More Than Morality; It's Sense.

It Is Always More Difficult To Fight One's Own Failings Than The Power Of An Adversary.

I Have Always Thought That The Best Way To Find Out What Is Right And What Is Not Right, What Should Be Done And What Should Not Be Done, Is Not To Give A Sermon, But To Talk And Discuss, And Out Of Discussion Sometimes A Little Bit Of Truth Comes Out.

Its [communism's] Unfortunate Association With Violence Encourages A Certain Evil Tendency In Human Beings.

I Wish That More And More Adventurous Young Men Would Give Up The Gun In Favour Of The Camera.

Long Years Ago, We Made A Tryst With Destiny And Now The Time Comes When We Shall Redeem Our Pledge... At The Stroke Of The Midnight Hour, When The World Sleeps, India Will Awake To Life And Freedom.

There Are Two Things That Have To Happen Before An Idea Catches On. One Is That The Idea Should Be Good. The Other Is That It Should Fit In With The Temper Of The Age. If It Does Not, Even A Good Idea May Well Be Passed By.

I Think The Years I Have Spent In Prison Have Been The Most Formative And Important In My Life Because Of The Discipline, The Sensations, But Chiefly The Opportunity To Think Clearly, To Try To Understand Things.

The Light Has Gone Out Of Our Lives And There Is Darkness Everywhere Following Gandhi's Assassination.

It Is Better To Understand A Part Of Truth And Apply It To Our Lives Than To Understand Nothing At All And Flounder Helplessly In A Vain Attempt To Pierce The Mystery Of Existence.

A Theory Must Be Tempered With Reality.