“Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it stil…”

“Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today. Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system. And because we have tolerated our past and present evils, international affairs are poisoned and law and justice have disappeared from them.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Title: Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru
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Context

The Unity of India : Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 280

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru

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