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It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Time is not measured by the years that pass by, instead by the things you do, feel or accomplish.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.
...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
The Ganga to me is the symbol of India's memorable past which has been flowing into the present and continues to flow towards the ocean of the future.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.
Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.
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.
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.
History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.