Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth14 November 1889
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
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
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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.
The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.
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 of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads", and the "Bhagavad Gita".