Famous quotes by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar you need to know

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers; otherwise those who can be law-makers will be the masters of those who can only be electors.

Democracy is not merely a form of Government...It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.

A safe army is better than a safe border

A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

The history of India is nothing but a history of a mortal conflict between Buddhism and Brahminism

Religion is for man and not man for religion

For every act of independent thinking puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

Caste has however done one thing. It has completely disorganized and demoralized the Hindus.

If you ask me, my ideal would be the society based on liberty, equality and fraternity. An ideal society should be mobile and full of channels of conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty, would kill individual initiative.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.