Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
Interpretation
Love uplifts and improves human character.
This quote by Bhagat Singh emphasizes that genuine love has the power to elevate a person's moral and ethical standards. It suggests that true love is transformative, encouraging individuals to strive for betterment rather than degradation, reinforcing the idea that love is inherently positive and uplifting.
In practice
During a speech on the importance of community, one could quote this to emphasize the power of love in uniting 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.
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.
Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
There are no words for how much I will miss her, but I try to kiss her so that she'll know. I try to kiss her to tell her the whole story of my love, the way I dreamed of her when she was dead, the way that every other girl seemed like a mirror that showed me her face. The way my skin ached for her. The way that kissing her made me feel like I was drowning and like I was being saved all at the same time. I hope she can taste all that, bittersweet, on my tongue.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse._x000D_ _x000D_ To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,_x000D_ _x000D_ As in a foundering ship.
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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