Sunday, June 3, 2012

Dr. B R Ambedkar Quotes


NameDr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar / Babasaheb
Born14 April 1891Mhow, Central Provinces, British India (now in Madhya Pradesh
Died6 December 1956(1956-12-06) (aged 65)Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
ProfessionJurist, political leader, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, and editor
Achievement1st Law Minister of India, Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, Bharat Ratna

Dr. B. R.. Precious thoughts of Ambedkar

Quote 1: A great man is different from an eminent one in In that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Quote 2: People and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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Quote 3: Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Quote 4: Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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Quote 5: For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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Quote 6: 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.
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Quote 7: I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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Quote 8: I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
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Quote 9: In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Quote 10: Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
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Quote 11: Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Quote 12: Life should be great rather than long.
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Quote 13: Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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Quote 14: 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.
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Quote 15: So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Quote 16: The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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Quote 17: The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Quote 18: 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.
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Quote 19: We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
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Quote 20: What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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