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
You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.
Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.