(62 quotes found)
“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.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded”
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say”
“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes”
“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage”
“The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject”
