35 result(s) for Ambedkar Quotes.
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."
"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered."
"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality, and fraternity."
"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."
"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
"Be educated, be organized and be agitated."
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"Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle."
"If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help."
"The history of India is nothing but a history of a mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism."
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
"Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle… Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions."
"I tell you that poverty is not the worst thing. Degradation is."
"Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realize that our people have yet to learn it. Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic."
"Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men."
"Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard of measuring."
"The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends."
"Life should be great rather than long."
"However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good."
"Education is as necessary to Dalits as air is to life."
"I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians."
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"If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it."
"Though I am born in Hindu Religion, I will not die as Hindu."
"The soundest way to correct social and political evils is to correct our private thinking."
"Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind."
"Political power is key to all progress."
"Constitution is not a mere lawyer’s document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age."
"Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle… Goats are sacrificed for nothing and tigers eat them all the same."
"I am proud of my country, India, and I am proud to be called an Indian."
"Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard."
"Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man."
"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
"We are Indians, firstly and lastly."
"They cannot make history who forget history."
"It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise who can be law-makers will be masters of those who can only be electors."
