A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have molded them

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A man who is afraid will do anything.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

— Jawaharlal Nehru