"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall."
— Jawaharlal Nehru

January 1, 1970

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Statement to Nikita Khrushchev, as quoted in The New York Post (1 April 1959), and in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984) by Jonathon Green, p. 184