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Category: B.R. Ambedkar

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.

Respect, Experience

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action.

man, reformers, respect

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

constitution, india

I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language. I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

india, indian, nationalism

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.

human-rights, struggle

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

humanity-and-society, salvation

On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value.In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value.How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.

constitution, equality, india

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

capitalism, economics-society, sociology

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

democracy, equality

Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.

law, order, politics

A safe army is better than a safe border

army, border, politics, security

Life should be great rather than long.

life-and-living