Bhagat Singh Quotes

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

You can try and kill my body but you cannot kill my cause.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

Where States impose unlawful censorship through filtering and other technologies, the use of encryption and anonymity may empower individuals to circumvent barriers and access information and ideas without the intrusion of authorities. Journalists, researchers, lawyers and civil society rely on encryption and anonymity to shield themselves (and their sources, clients and partners) from surveillance and harassment. The ability to search the web, develop ideas and communicate securely may be the only way in which many can explore basic aspects of identity, such as one’s gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexuality.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost - the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.

Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.