197 Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

I had little patience with leftist groups in India, spending much of their energy in mutual conflict and recrimination over fine points of doctrine which did not interest me at all. Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction

The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.

The future is not one of ease or resting but one of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism, the way you play it is free will.

The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

At the stroke of a midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.