"Echoes of Revolution: Inspiring Quotes by Bhagat Singh"

 

1. "Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail."
2. "The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas."
3. "Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking."
4. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
5. "The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people."
6. "Philosophy is the outcome of human weakness or limitation of knowledge."
7. "I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice."
8. "The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs to be replaced by the revolutionary spirit."
9. "Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement."
10. "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucination."
11. "The bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas."
12. "I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy, and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines."
13. "Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all."
14. "The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure. The kingdom of heaven is within us, but only pure heart can see the king."
15. "Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve, and challenge every item of the old faith."
16. "The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation hereafter, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty, and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life."
17. "Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
18. "Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas."
19. "The state is the product of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. If classes were not antagonistic, there would be no need for the state."
20. "Revolution is not a dinner party."
21. "Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat. I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail."
22. "My words are my bullets, my body is the gun."
23. "It is easy to kill individuals, but you cannot kill the ideas."
24. "I have no desire to take all men to heaven, but only to take humanity out of hell."
25. "I am not a terrorist; I am a revolutionary."
26. "Zindagi to apne damm par hi jiyi jati hey...dusro k kandhe par tohh shirf janaje uthaye jate hai."
27. "If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud."
28. "Lovers, Lunatics, and poets are made of the same stuff."

By Bhagat Singh