Bhagat Singh Quotes

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.

I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built.

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.