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‘Belief’ softens the hardships, even can make them pleasant. In god man can find very strong consolation and support. Without Him, man has to depend upon himself. To stand upon one’s own legs amid storms and hurricanes is not a child’s play.
The day we find a great number of men and women with this psychology who cannot devote themselves to anything else than the service of mankind and emancipation of the suffering humanity, that day shall inaugurate the era of liberty.
Self¬reliance is always liable to be interpreted as vanity.
Criticism and independent thinking are the two indispensable qualities of a revolutionary.
know in the present circumstances, my faith in god would have made my life easier, my burden lighter and my disbelief in him has turned all the circumstances too dry and the situation may assume too harsh a shape.
But man’s duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.
reason is the guiding star of his life.
it was perhaps Upton Sinclair that wrote at some place, that just make a man a believer in immortality and then rob him of all his riches and possessions. He shall help you even in that ungrudgingly.
“The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.”
“Old orders should change, always and ever, yielding place to new, so that one good order may not corrupt the world.”
slums. The capitalists and exploiters, the parasites of society, squander millions on their whims. These terrible inequalities and forced disparity of chances are bound to lead to chaos.
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labour is the real sustainer of society.
“If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticism will be answered by calling you vain and egoist.” – Bhagat Singh
“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith.” – Bhagat Singh
Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis, after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e. regime).
The war neither began with us, nor is it going to end with our lives. It is the inevitable consequence of the historic events and the existing environments.
