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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, People, Progress
Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

A country is known by the way it treats its animals

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, Animal, Way

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Running, Country, Science
Jawaharlal Nehru, H. N. Sethna (1981). “Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979”

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, India, Republic
Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, Color, Differences
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi (1963). “India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'”, Asia Publishing House

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, America, Firsts
"The Traveling Curmudgeon: Irreverent Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes on Dismal Destinations, Excess Baggage, The Full Upright Position, and Other Reasons Not To Go There". Book by Jon Winokur, August 19, 2003.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, Mind, Culture
Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth.

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, Light, Years

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

Jawaharlal Nehru
Country, People, Progress
Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi N. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda;general Editor: S. Gopal”

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