“To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)
Context: To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. But that certainly does not mean asceticism or self-mortification. Nor do I appreciate in the least the idealization of the "simple peasant life." I have almost a horror of it, and instead of submitting to it myself I want to drag out even the peasantry from it, not to urbanization, but to the spread of urban cultural facilities to rural areas.

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Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister … 1889–1964

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