Marlon Brando Quotes

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

In a superior civilization, as, for example, that of the Indo-Aryans, the being who is without a characteristic form or caste... would emerge as a pariah. In this respect America is a society of pariahs. There is a role for pariahs. It is to be subjected to beings whose form and internal laws are precisely defined. Instead the modern pariahs seek to become dominant themselves and to exercise their dominion over all the world.

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

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.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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 …

The idea of the nation [India] itself is incompatible with the institution of caste.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists.

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.

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

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet.