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Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Quotes

1902–1975 India

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (aka Gora) (15 November 1902 - 1975) was an Indian social reformer and atheist activist who advocated the abolition of the caste system.

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Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious.

Human problems are more psychological than materialistic.

Atheism alone is the surest way to morality.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

Rao (1996)

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Further, economic systems … have never arranged themselves by themselves.

Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

Soul is as much a falsehood as god is.

We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.

Right wins only when we dare and act.

Atheism ensures morality. Morality is a social necessity. The immorality of one disturbs the happiness of another in social relations. So checks and counter-checks maintain morality.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.