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Subhas Chandra Bose quotes for UPSC

4 sourced quotes by Subhas Chandra Bose on nation, unity & diversity, courage, truth & wisdom, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.

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One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
— Subhas Chandra Bose"Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians" at Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Use itEssay on power of ideas: martyrdom multiplies an idea across generations.
It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
— Subhas Chandra BoseSpeech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Use itGS1 freedom struggle: Bose's call for sacrifice and armed resistance by the INA.
One of the dreams that have inspired me and given a purpose to my life is that of a great and undivided Bengal … a Bengal that is above all sects and groups and is the home alike of the Muslim, the Hindu, the Christian and the Buddhist.
— Subhas Chandra BoseNearly a decade before he formed the Indian National Army (INA), Netaji wrote this passionate message to his fellow Bengalis
Use itEssay on composite nationalism: homeland above sects for all faiths.
Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.
— Subhas Chandra BoseAs quoted in An Indian pilgrim: an unfinished autobiography (1997) by himself, Sisir Kumar Bose, and Sugata Bose, p. 124
Use itGS4: act on the best available truth despite uncertainty; decision-making under incomplete knowledge.

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