Netaji Quotes

“I believe there are two ways of concealing a secret: 1. Leave no trace of it. 2. Replace it with a lie.
So which option did you choose, Mr.President?”
― Sambhav Ratnakar, The Covert Perspective

“Not every murderer is known, not every death is recorded, not every human being in the history of mankind is remembered and not every God’s name is memorised by me. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, Dr.Mukherjee.”
― Sambhav Ratnakar, The Covert Perspective

“A light brought into a
dark room will necessarily illuminate every portion of it”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“For me, the essential nature of reality is LOVE. LOVE is the essence of the Universe and is the essential principle in human life.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“The best way to end a Government is to withdraw from it, I say this not because that that was Tolstoy’s doctrine nor because Gandhi preaches it———but because I have come to believe in it...”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“I am fully convinced now that I shall be able to serve my country better if I am one of the people than if I am a member of the bureaucracy.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it.”
― Sambhav Ratnakar

“I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it.”
― Sambhav Ratnakar The Covert Perspective

“The ones who do not believe, Dr.Mukherjee, think like me; just because we don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”
― Sambhav Ratnakar, The Covert Perspective

“History will bear me out when I say that it is a misnomer to talk of Muslim rule when describing the political order in India prior to the advent of the British.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“The proper psychological approach for a cultural rapprochement between the East and the West is not to force ‘English’ education on Indian boys when they
are young, but to bring them into close personal contact with the West when they are developed, so that they can judge for themselves what is good and what is bad in the East and in the West.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“It is strange how your opinion of yourself can be influenced by what others think of you”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“Looking back on my past life I feel inclined to think that I should not have neglected sports. By doing so, I probably developed precocity and accentuated my introvert tendencies”
― Subhas Chandra Bose

“To ripen too early is not good, either for a tree or
for a human being and One has to pay for it in the long run. There is nothing to beat nature’s law of gradual development, and however much prodigies may interest us at first they generally fail to fulfill their early promise.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“in human life moral values should count more than anything else”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“revolt is necessary for self-fulfilment—that when a child is born, its very cry is a revolt against the bondage in which it finds itself”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“It is possible in a country like India and especially in
families where conservative, parochial, sectarian, or caste influences reign supreme, to grow into maturity and even obtain high University degrees without being really emancipated.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“In this task of freeing my mind of superstitions,
Vivekananda was of great help to me. The religion that he preached——including his conception of Yogawas based on a rational philosophy, on the Vedanta, and his conception of Vedanta was not antagonistic to, but was based on, scientific principles”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“Ramakrishna used always to say that gold and sex are the two greatest obstacles in the path of spiritual development and I took his words as gospel truth.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“If I could live my life over again, I should not in all probability give sex the exaggerated importance which I did in my boyhood and youth. hat does not mean that I regret what I did. If I did err in overemphasising the importance of sex—control, I probably erred on the right side, for certain benefits did accrue therefrom ——though perhaps incidentally.”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“If I give up the service, I shall not be in want of work to
keep my hands full. Teaching, social service, co-operative credit work, journalism, village organization work, these are so many things to keep thousands of energetic young men busy. Personally, I should like teaching and journalism at present”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim

“Education in the lower stages must be ‘national,’ it must have its roots in the soil. We must draw our mental pabulum from the culture of our own country. How can that be possible if one is transplanted at too early an age? No, we should not, as a rule, countenance the idea of sending boys and girls to schools abroad quite alone at an immature age. Education becomes international at the higher stages. It is then that students can, with profit, go abroad, and it is then that the East and the West can commingle to the benefit of both”
― Subhas Chandra Bose, An Indian Pilgrim