Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian revolutionary socialist who was influential in the Indian independence movement. Born into a Jat Punjabi Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, he studied European revolutionary movements as a teenager and was attracted to anarchist and Marxist ideologies. He worked with several revolutionary organisations and became prominent in the Hindustan Republican Association, which changed its name to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Associationin 1928...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth28 September 1907
CityKhatkar Kalan, India
CountryIndia
Bhagat Singh quotes about
For mass struggles, nonviolence is essential.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.
We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.
The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian..
Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.