Quote #193038
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The remark is a pointed observation about how material or political satisfaction can shape one’s attitude toward stability. Someone who has already secured wealth, status, or power tends to prefer “peace and order” because the existing system protects what they have; disorder threatens their gains. Implicitly, it critiques complacency among the privileged and suggests that calls for “order” are not always neutral or moral—they can be self-interested defenses of the status quo. Read in a broader anti-colonial or reformist frame often associated with Nehru’s politics, it also hints that those who lack justice or opportunity may see upheaval as necessary, while the comfortable preach calm.




