Louis Sullivan Quotes

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Society is better off without certain people.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Untouchables are treated as if less than beasts …. Untouchability for me is more insufferable than British rule. If Hinduism hugs Untouchability, then Hinduism is dead and gone.

Nothing can be more repugnant to the individualism and love of freedom of the British race than the Hindu caste system, under which every man is born into a particular water-tight compartment from which he cannot emerge except through death and rebirth …

In my view - which could be wrong, but it is my field - there is no better formula for social instability than to divide a society between two ascribed characteristics that are seen as opposite.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

Untouchability is a terrible reality.

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.