Daily Inspiration Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru

Nehru’s line has the crisp impatience of a statesman who’s watched public life get fogged up by wishful thinking. “Facts are facts” is blunt on purpose: it strips away debate-as-performance and returns politics to an older, sterner premise that reality does not negotiate. The second clause sharpens the blade. “Will not disappear” frames denial as a childish magic trick, the belief that stubbornness can rewrite the world. And “on account of your likes” turns the accusation personal. Not your ideology, not your party, not even your principles - your likes: the private preferences and pet resentments that people smuggle into public arguments and then dress up as truth.

The intent isn’t merely to defend objectivity; it’s to defend governance. Nehru led during the high-stakes work of building a postcolonial state, where fantasies - about national purity, about easy development, about communal blame - could become policy, and policy could become disaster. In that context, this is a warning against the seductions of mass emotion and factional comfort. He’s asking citizens to tolerate the discomfort of evidence, and he’s reminding opponents that history doesn’t grade on a curve.

Rhetorically, it works because it refuses poetry. No metaphors, no lofty abstraction, just a hard sentence that sounds like a desk being struck. It’s less a moral appeal than a boundary: you can argue, you can campaign, you can rage - but you can’t vote reality out of existence.