Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal NehruRead
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Democracy should encompass economic equality as part of its fundamental principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru emphasizes the necessity of expanding the concept of democracy to include economic equality. He suggests that true democracy is not just about political freedoms and rights but also about ensuring that all individuals have equal access to economic resources and opportunities, marking a significant transformation in society.
Themes
DemocracyEconomic EqualityRevolutionSocietyTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
During a political rally advocating for social justice.
More from Jawaharlal Nehru
All quotes βIndia has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
Jawaharlal NehruRead
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal NehruRead
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Jawaharlal NehruRead
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal NehruRead
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Jawaharlal NehruRead
Similar quotes
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
Neil GaimanRead
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.
Hermann HesseRead
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
Miguel Angel RuizRead
But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.
George MacdonaldRead
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.
Ayn RandRead