Edwin Arnold Quotes

Brahmins do not have the right to call themselves Indians … If India has to become a modern nation, … It has to establish an egalitarian relationship between Brahmins and the lower castes.

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

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.

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.

Caste has divided us. I wish it should be completely abolished from our society.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.

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

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

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

India’s great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in leveled the injurious distinctions of caste

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

Any organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Brahmins cannot hope to claim a high and superior status forever. Times are changing. They have to come down.

In India, cast not class … is what counts most in popular life.

Caste in India is the first and last reality.