“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.— from Bhagat Singh's prison diary, p. 124”
― Bhagat Singh, The Jail Notebook And Other Writings
Here's a guy on the verge of receiving capital punishment, a dead man walking, and instead of destroying his dignity and integrity like so many have done either in old age or on their death bed by shunning all that makes sense in favor of all that doesn't, this 23 year-old man mocks the fabricated fear of the afterlife by celebrating reason as he awaits the hangman's noose while scribbling away in jail in the city of Lahore.
― Bhagat Singh, The Jail Notebook And Other Writings
Here's a guy on the verge of receiving capital punishment, a dead man walking, and instead of destroying his dignity and integrity like so many have done either in old age or on their death bed by shunning all that makes sense in favor of all that doesn't, this 23 year-old man mocks the fabricated fear of the afterlife by celebrating reason as he awaits the hangman's noose while scribbling away in jail in the city of Lahore.
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