It is right therefore that India should be eager to learn more about Russia. So far her information has been largely derived from subsidised news age… - Jawaharlal Nehru

If two men fight in the streets the policeman separates them and everybody thinks how silly they are. But how much sillier and more foolish is it for great countries to fight each other and kill thousands and millions.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

History bears witness to the vital part that the ‘prophets’ have played in human progress — which is evidence of the ultimate practical value of expressing unreservedly the truth as one sees it. Yet it also becomes clear that the acceptances and spreading of that vision has always depended on another class of men — “leaders” who had to be philosophical strategists, striking a compromise between truth and men’s receptivity to it.