Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

Long ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of the nation, long surprised, finds utterance.

Where were the saints to try and change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but do away with slavery?

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

… history itself appears to be abandoning the eruption of events in favor of stable structures

… all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

There's always going to be a moment where it's out with the old, and in with the new. That's probably going to happen to me one day.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.