Jurist Quotes

97 quotes in this collection

"The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live?"

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"There is a Difference Between Merely Living and Living Worthily."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Indians today are governed by two different ideologies."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"If you choose education even when you have nothing, you can go from being a nobody to becoming a person of value."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"A great man is not one who has power and money but the one who has knowledge."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Be confident, never give up, these are the five principles of life."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"In Hinduism, conscience, reason, and independent thinking have no scope for development."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"The strength of a society depends upon the presence of points of contact, possibilities of interaction between different groups which exist in it."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Education is what makes a person aware of his existence, potential and power."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Sentiment must be outlawed from the domain of science and things should be judged from an objective standpoint."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection... It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"The history of India is nothing but a history of a mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahminism."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"A religious act may not be a correct act, but must at least be a responsible act."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"An educated man without character and humility is more dangerous than an uneducated person."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Knowledge is like food for all human beings."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Educating the masses means educating the nation."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"Man cannot achieve anything in this world unless he has modesty and education."

-- B. R. Ambedkar

"A just society is that society in which an ascending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society."

-- B. R. Ambedkar
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