B. R. Ambedkar quotes for UPSC

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vs vested interests have never been be known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nothing is infallible. Nothing is binding forever. Everything is Subject to inquiry and examination.

Every progress has its bill of costs and only those who pay for it will have that progress.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.