Top 40 Bhagat Singh Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Bhagat Singh

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2. “If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud.”

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3. “Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.”

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4. “Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.”

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5. “Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love.”

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6. “I am a man and all that affects mankind concerns me.”

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7. “I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.”

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8. “It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.”

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9. “Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.”

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10. “I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.”

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11. “The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.”

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12. “The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below.”

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13. “The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march.”

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14. “By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.”

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15. “The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.”

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16. “The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.”

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17. “If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.”

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18. “Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.”

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19. “But man’s duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments.”

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20. “For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.”

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21. “Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly.”

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22. “The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God or he may begin to believe himself to be God.”

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23. “Life is lived on its ownother’s shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.”

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24. “Rebellion against king is always a sin according to every religion.”

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25. “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...”

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26. “Criticism and independent thinking are the two indispensable qualities of a revolutionary.”

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27. “Philosophy is the outcome of human weakness or limitation of knowledge”.”

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28. “One friend asked me to pray. When informed of my atheism, he said, “During your last days you will begin to believe”. I said, No, dear Sir, it shall not be. I will think that to be an act of degradation and demoralization on my part. For selfish motives I am not going to pray. Readers and friends, “Is this vanity”? If it is, I stand for it.”

— Bhagat Singh

29. “The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.”

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30. “Self-reliance is always liable to be interpreted as vanity. It is sad and miserable but there is no help.”

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31. “I deny the very existence of that Almighty Supreme Being.”

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32. “Oppression “Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad.”

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33. “The romance of militancy dominated our predecessors; now serious ideas ousted this way of thinking. No more mysticism! No more blind faith! Now realism was our mode of thinking. At times of terrible necessity, we can resort to extreme methods, but violence produces opposite results in mass movements.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Yes: 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.”

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36. “Revolution was the vital living force indicative of eternal conflict between life and death, the old and the new, light and the darkness.”

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37. “Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol.”

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38. “Do you ask me how I explain the origin of this world and origin of man? Alright I tell you. Charles Darwin has tried to throw some light on the subject. Study him.”

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39. “King’s Salary It Is inhuman to talk of a million sterling a year, paid out of the public taxes of any country, for the support of an individual, whilst thousands who are forced to contribute thereto, are pining with want and struggling with misery. Govt does not consist in a contract between prisons and palaces,14 between poverty and pomp; it is not instituted to rob the needy of his mite and increase the worthlessness of the wretched.”

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40. “Belief’ softens the hardships, even can make them pleasant. In God man can find very strong consolation and support. Without Him, the man has to depend upon himself. To stand upon one’s own legs amid storms and hurricanes is not a child’s play. At such testing moments, vanity, if any, evaporates, and man cannot dare to defy the general beliefs, if he does, then we must conclude that he has got certain other strength than mere vanity.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “Instead of using the experiments and expressions of the ancient Savants and thinkers as a basis for our future struggle against ignorance and to try to find out a solution to this mysterious problem, we – lethargical as we have proved to be – raise the hue and cry of faith, unflinching and unwavering faith to their versions and thus are guilty of stagnation in human progress.”

— Bhagat Singh