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.
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition
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