B. R. Ambedkar Quotes

The cow is sacred, and as a result, most Indians do not eat beef.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Marriage shall not take place between a patrician and a plebeian.

A religion is not just a set of texts but the living beliefs and practices of its adherents.

I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith.

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.

Hindu civilization is a common history, common heroes, a common literature, common art, a common law and a common jurisprudence, common fairs and festivals, rites and rituals, ceremonies and sacraments..

Religion was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were taught in all the other classes.

Caste in India is the first and last reality.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Religion is such a path with people.

No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

My religion is very important to me.

The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

I take my religion seriously.

Secular thinkers have a separation between thinking and doing. They don't have a grasp of the balance sheet. The doers are selling us potted plants and pizzas while the thinkers are a little bit unworldly. Religions both think and do.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.