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Jayprakash Narayan

Jayprakash Narayan (1902-1979) was an Indian nationalist and reformer. He espoused radical socialist ideals. He declined Nehru's offer to join his government. He fought against Indira Gandhi for clamping emergency in India.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • It (Communism) did not offer an answer to the question Why should a man be good?
  • My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.
- at the All India Youth Conference (June 29, 1975)
  • Power comes invariably to be usurped by a handful of the most ruthless among the erstwhile revolutionaries when power comes out of the barrel of a gun and the gun is not in the hands of the common people.
  • A violent revolution has always brought forth a dictatorship of some kind or the other.... After a revolution, a new privileged class of rulers up and exploiters grows in the course of time to which the people at large is once again subject.

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