Bhagat Singh Quotes

George Minot [a Concord neighbor] thinks that it is of no use balloting, for it will not stay, but what you do with the gun will stay so.

We knew how cruel we were being … but we had to get our political message across.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's one or the other in 1964. It isn't that time is running out—time has run out!

The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

It is our unhappiness, in this time of danger, to have too many Calvinistic politicians, who seem to think their country will be saved by good words and warm faith, without concomitant exploits …

We must continually stimulate the living politics of the street...it will be our task to try and break it (elections for the National Assembly) up by force.

Spies and informers, beware. Tried, convicted and executed by the Irish Republican Army

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

Only force would produce social change.

What will be blown up next? Last night an attempt was made to blow up the Government Offices in Parliament Street. Not so much damage was done to the building, owing to its great strength, but the streets for some distance round were strewn with glass…. Papa says it is Mr. Gladstone’s fault. He takes the side of these rogues and then, if they think he is slackening, they frighten him on a bit – really we shall be as bad as France soon.

Terrorism is to be used toward an end. It is not an end in itself.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

I grew up feeling from a very young age that what was right was right, no matter if God or my teacher said so.

Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.