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Quotes from Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination — B. R. Ambedkar

1891–1956 India

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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be servant of the society.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

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

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

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.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

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

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

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

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is not fit to rule another country must admit that a class is not fit to rule another class.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

I was born a Hindu because I had no control over this, but I shall not die a Hindu.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

For a successful revolution, it is not enough that there is enough discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

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It was not enough that India should get Swaraj. It was more important in whose hands the Swaraj would be.

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

Indians today are governed by 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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“May I mention the R.S.S. and the Akali Dal? Some of them are very dangerous associations. It may be that one Government may recognize them and another Government may not recognize them, all these possibilities are there.”

Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: B. R. Ambedkar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.