Jail Diary Of Bhagat Singh Quotes

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; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.— from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124

Tujhe zibaah karne ki khushi, mujhe marne kaa shauk, Meri bhi marzi wahi hai, jo mere sayyaad ki hai.

Chher naa ae farishte tu zikr-i-ghame-i-jaanaanaan! Kyon yaad dilaate ho bhulaa huu afsaanaa!

Tujhe zabaah karne ki khushi, mujhe marne kaa shauk Meri bhi marzi wahi hai, jo mere sayyaad ki hai.

All classes striving for power are revolutionary, and talk of equality. All classes, when they get into power, are conservative and are convinced that equality is an indecent dream.

Men! Whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers, brave and free, If there breathes on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If you do not feel the chain When it works a brother’s pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed. Slaves unworthy to be freed? Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget, That we owe mankind a debt? No! True Freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, Earnest to make others free! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they need must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. —James Russell Lowell