“But the past is dead and gone and our immortal civilisation does not help us greatly in solving the problems of today.”— Jawaharlal Nehru, Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)Share
“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”— Jawaharlal NehruShare
“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.”— Jawaharlal NehruShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said; for ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.”— Henry Wadsworth LongfellowShare
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our…”— Nelson MandelaShare
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”— Leo TolstoyShare
“He that defers his charity till he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's than of his own.”— Francis BaconShare
