“Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru, The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 280

About Jawaharlal Nehru

1889 – 1964

First Prime Minister of independent India.

“The past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.”

“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”

“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”