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
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
A man who is afraid will do anything.
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
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.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
The Russians have been so sweet to me,
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism?the way you play it is free will.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
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.
There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes open.
Socialism is . . . not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.