Quotes About Castes

#1. Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

Wendy Doniger

#2. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

Nayomi Munaweera

#3. Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The

Timothy J. Henderson

#4. Castes never meant that much to me.

Kiera Cass

#5. There are three kinds of Peers; the one who did the shitty job for upper-castes, the one who sold their rights for upper-castes's entertaintment, and the one who is going to bring the upper-castes down."
"Which one is you?"
"Apparently, all three of them.

Rea Lidde

#6. Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so forth, and they hold the most important positions.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The outcaste is a bye-product of the caste system. There will be outcastes as long as there are castes. Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

B.R. Ambedkar

#9. (liberal individualism triumphed as long as it undermined intermediate structures such as nations, corporations, castes, but when it attacked that ultimate social structure, the family, and thus the birthrate, it signed its own death warrant; Muslim dominance was a foregone conclusion).

Michel Houellebecq

#10. The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Read

#12. Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#14. Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.

Amitav Ghosh

#15. As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#16. The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

Noam Chomsky

#17. He loved me. He really loved me. And I loved him. In spite of everything that should have kept us apart - our castes, our mistakes, the world around us - we were supposed to be together.

Kiera Cass

#18. It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

#19. But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

William Morton Wheeler

#20. Iran - the world's leading sponsor of terrorism - is close to having nuclear weapons.

Newt Gingrich

#21. Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Gloria Naylor

#22. I promise not to shoot him."
"good"
"today

Rachel Van Dyken

#23. Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

Andre Gide

#25. I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Richard O'Brien

#26. I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

T. J. Miller

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

B.R. Ambedkar

#28. My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

Jack Reynor

#29. Now I have no caste, no creed,
I am no more what I am!

Kabir

#30. Like most young Annawadians, the girls considered the caste obsession of their elders to be an irrelevant artifact. Manju and Meena had become friends because they both loved to dance, and stayed friends because they could keep each other's secrets.

Katherine Boo

#31. I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about.

LeBron James

#32. I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

Bill Keller

#33. I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

Judith McNaught

#34. Your enjoyment only adds to my pleasure, but don't forget that I'm forcing you to do this.

Lydia Kelly

#35. I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power

Narendra Modi

#36. Confidence is necessary to charisma. No one's going to like the kid quietly sitting in the corner, because there's no reason to. They haven't done anything memorable or exciting. People love a trendsetter or a rebel. These

Virginia Patel

#37. Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

#38. Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Rebecca Wells

#40. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

Anais Nin

#41. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

Theodore Roosevelt