The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.
Interpretation
The law holds meaning and authority only when it reflects the desires and needs of the citizens.
Bhagat Singh's quote emphasizes the importance of the law as a representation of the collective will of the people. It suggests that laws should not be arbitrary or imposed from above, but rather be a direct expression of the public's values and aspirations to ensure their legitimacy and moral authority. This highlights the relationship between governance and societal consent, where the law is only sacred if it is guided by the will of the people it serves.
In practice
In a speech advocating for democratic reforms, you might say this quote to emphasize the need for laws that represent the people.
One should not interpret the word βRevolutionβ in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent. But what happens when such an attempt fail to achieve the object? It is here that soul-force has to be combined with physical force so as not to remain at the mercy of tyrannical and ruthless enemy.
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.
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.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.
All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.
Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.
There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
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