197 Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

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.

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

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".

There is no end to the adventures we can have if we seek them with our eyes open.

The Russians have been so sweet to me,

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. So many people seem to go about their life's business with their eyes shut. Indeed, they object to other people keeping their eyes open. Unable to play themselves, they dislike the play of others.

Socialism is . . . not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.