Skip to content

“The history of India is a history of mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism.”

— B. R. Ambedkar

Another quote →

Topics

History

More quotes by B. R. Ambedkar

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

He has never called the Muslims to account even when they have been guilty of gross crimes against Hindus.

Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946)

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)

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.

All B. R. Ambedkar quotes →

You may also like

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: B. R. Ambedkar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.