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.
Interpretation
The quote questions the role of God in preventing human wrongdoing and suffering.
Bhagat Singh reflects on the apparent inaction of an omnipotent God in the face of human evil, such as war and sin. He challenges the notion of divine intervention by asking why God, with all power, does not prevent individuals from committing harmful acts, suggesting a paradox in the understanding of justice and morality in relation to divine will.
In practice
This quote can be used in a debate about the existence of evil in the world and the concept of a benevolent deity.
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” 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.
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.
A born king is a very rare being.
If you read the 13th Amendment, it doesn't talk about narratives of racial difference. It doesn't talk about ideologies of white supremacy. It only talks about involuntary servitude and forced labor.
Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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