Quotes About Brahmins

#1. If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

Swami Vivekananda

#2. The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.

B.R. Ambedkar

#3. I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

Rachel Weisz

#4. The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. In New York, everyone just looks hurt. It seems more honest. Maybe I just identified with them.

Anonymous

#6. Love
that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home
sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Horace Mann

#7. Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#8. Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Polly Toynbee

#9. Such antics do not amount to a man.

William Shakespeare

#10. Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#11. I want to say a word to the Brahmins: In the name of God, religion, sastras you have duped us. We were the ruling people. Stop this life of cheating us from this year. Give room for rationalism and humanism.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#12. The notion of burial had always struck him as stifling and cold. He liked the Indian way better, setting the bodies up high, as if passing them to the heavens.

Michael Punke

#13. The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a highercaste, not ennobled by birth, however, but by deliberate self-initiation.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#16. Yes. But the Brahmins don't just cure people. They are also teachers, lawyers, priests, basically any intellectual profession.' 'Talented people,' sniffed Shiva.

Amish Tripathi

#17. This burden of Brahmins, no one understands. The sacrifice they make for knowledge, when the whole world sleeps they wake setting standards for the mediocre. But it is their arrogance that is taken note of. They have earned it, haven't they?

Aporva Kala

#18. You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

Agustin Castillo

#19. My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

Muhammad Iqbal

#20. While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables ) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#21. I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin

Rudrangshu Mukherjee

#22. Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.

B.R. Ambedkar

#24. Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.

Amit Chaudhuri

#25. There's nothing like getting in trouble to make you feel young.

Elizabeth Berg

#26. An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

John Maynard Keynes

#27. From what Ayyan had heard of the battles of the Brahmins, it would be bloodless but brutal. They would fight like demons armed with nothing more than deceit and ideals - another form of deceit among men from good families.

Manu Joseph

#28. I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.

Yann Martel

#29. He is dead, right?"
"Graveyard dead," Bran admitted without a hint of remorse.
"Oh, forgive us," Rick murmured, crossing himself.
"Forgiveness is between him and God," Bran insisted. "It was my job to arrange the meeting."
"Man on Fire," Maddy blurted.

Julie Ann Walker

#30. I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Chuck Schumer

#31. Messianic Judaism is not Christianity.

Sipporah Joseph

#32. Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious not of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#33. I think the media is a real demon.

George Michael

#34. Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Georg Buchner