B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds, Bloom well in prison-air; It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there:

… religion is poison

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.

...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them..." ~ Thomas Builds-the-Fire (played by Evan Adams) in Alexie's "Smoke Signals

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.