B. R. Ambedkar quote: "Learn to live in this world with self-respect. You should always cherish some ambition of doing something in this world. But remember that the age of selflessness has ended. A new epoch is set in. All things are now possible because of your being able to participate in the politics and legislature of your country."

However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the ca...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profoun...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. Al...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhiksh...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. L...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other stan...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine mus...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a m...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults....
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it d...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has incu...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoi...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no communit...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does soci...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hin...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There i...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which p...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admi...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The second thing we are wanting in is the recognition of the principle of fraternity. What does frat...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Religion and slavery are incompatible.
B. R. AMBEDKAR

We want our own people, people who will fight tooth and nail for our interest and secure privilege f...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Emerson has said that consistency is a virtue of an ass. No thinking human being can be tied down to...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that y...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equalit...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

There can be no gain saying that political power in this country has too long been the monopoly of t...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his ...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

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

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the i...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. T...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found where as in ca...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot ach...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's lif...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in t...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a t...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor i...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

To open or not to open the temples is a question for you to consider and not for me to agitate. If u...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. Th...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat c...
B. R. AMBEDKAR

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. HAYDEN

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.
B. R. HAYDEN

The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failu...
B. R. HAYDEN

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor alway...
B. R. HAYDEN

I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we wil...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

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

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

Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation.
Equity signifies e...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

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

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity.
An ide...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial;
free from passion, unbiased by interest,...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison ca...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of sp...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Why does a human body become deceased?
The reason is that as long as the human body is not free...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institu...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the s...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers,
but by relentless...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

My definition of democracy is -
A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary change...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and
then r...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measur...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

religion is for man and not man for religion
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.
It means a state of society in wh...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

It is not enough to be electors only.
It is necessary to be law-makers;
otherwise those ...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

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

Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Democracy is not merely a form of Government.
It is primarily a mode of associated living, of ...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in c...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the i...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

The Hindus criticise the Mahomedans for having spread their religion by the use of the sword. They a...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profoun...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

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

Life should be great rather than long.
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admi...
B.R. AMBEDKAR

Even the sinning of the regenerate man differs essentially from that of the unregenerate man.
R. B. [RIENK BOUKE] KUIPER

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING

Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
B. B. KING

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
B. B. KING

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
B. B. KING

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
B. B. KING

I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
B. B. KING

I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
B. B. KING

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
B. B. KING

I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
B. B. KING

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
B. B. KING

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
B. B. KING

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who ...
B. B. KING

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING

I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands h...
B. B. KING

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew the...
B. B. KING

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and the...
B. B. KING

A lot of people believe what other people say.
B. B. KING

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're ...
B. B. KING

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.
B. B. KING

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ...
B. B. KING

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. KING

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. KING

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.
B. B. KING

Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blue...
B. B. KING

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. KING

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people...
B. B. KING

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. KING

I have a nice car, a Mercedes. And then I have an old El Camino truck that I'm crazy about. I li...
B. B. KING

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
B. B. KING

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without ...
B. B. KING

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. KING

Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
B. B. KING

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
B. B. KING

Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

B. R. Ambedkar

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