Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

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

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

A man who is afraid will do anything.

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.

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

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 a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

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

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.