B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

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

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

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

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Life should be great rather than long.

I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Religion is for man and not man for religion

Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

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

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

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

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 our fellow men.

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.