Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve, and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item, he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith.
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.
The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts, and above all such theories for mankind.
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation hereafter, but to make the best use of it here below.
I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and full charm of life. But I can renounce everything at the time of need and that is the real sacrifice.
Revolution was the vital living force indicative of eternal conflict between life and death, the old and the new, light and the darkness.
This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
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.
Old order should change, always and ever, yielding place to new, so that one good order may not corrupt the world.
Bombs and pistols don’t make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly.
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Great Empires crumbled, while the ideas survived.
Do you really know the most cursed sin in this world is to be poor? Yes, poverty is a sin; it is a punishment.
The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.