Quotes About Caste

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation. But not all things can be seen. Jati can be seen but not varna.

God does not hate you, Draupadi. But you are responsible for rejecting Karna on the grounds of caste. A great warrior, he would never have gambled you in a game of dice. You chose a priest instead, who turned out to be a prince, who shared you with his four brothers, but who could not protect you. And so here you are—helpless, humiliated, and alone, in a situation that you inadvertently helped create. Take responsibility for it.

If one believed that current caste privileges were the result of merits earned in past life, then one would not spend this life exhausting merit. One would instead focus on accumulating merit.

As in the dialogue between Yudhishtira and Nahusha, the Mahabharata repeatedly states that one becomes a Brahman not by birth but by effort. Thus the epic challenges the traditional understanding of caste.

deepening class divide makes social mobility all but impossible. The result is a de facto caste system. This is not only morally wrong but also tremendously wasteful. Denying access to opportunity for large segments of the population means throwing away vast reserves of talent and brainpower. It's also been shown to dampen economic growth.

Mistrust must be sown of the plutocratic ruling caste, and fear must be instilled of what is about to befall. All this must be laid on as thick as possible

The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably.

An officers' mess is one of the surest barometers of military success. So long as the officers continue to pig it with the men, there is danger of defeat. But once the officers' mess appears — raised almost on the bodies of the foe, contrived of sticks and pieces of canvas or perhaps only an imaginary line like a taboo — once this appears, and caste is restored. we know that victory is ours.

There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.

And if you were an Epsilon,' said Henry, 'your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren't a Beta or an Alpha.

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

Crowds of lower-caste workers were queued up in front of the monorail station—seven or eight hundred Gamma, Delta and Epsilon men and women, with not more than a dozen faces and statures between them.

Yo soy yo, y desearía no serlo. La conciencia que tenía de sí mismo era muy aguda y dolorosa. Cada vez que se descubría a sí mismo mirando horizontalmente y no de arriba abajo a la cara de un Delta, se sentía humillado

Todos nosotros —prosiguió el Interventor, meditabundo— vivimos en el interior de un frasco. Mas para los Alfas, los frascos, relativamente hablando, son enormes. Nosotros sufriríamos horriblemente si fuésemos confinados en un espacio más estrecho. No se puede verter sucedáneo de champaña de las clases altas en los frascos de las castas bajas.

Ale to jednak dziwne, ?e alfy i bety nie u?y?niaj? gleby bardziej ni? te tutaj wstr?tne ma?e gammy, delty i epsilony.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from Co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

Caste is not just a division of labor, it is a division of laborers.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe caste because they are deeply religious.

Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

Oh, it isn't that I mind the glittering caste system, admitted Amory. I like having a bunch of hot cats on top, but gosh, Kerry, I've got to be one of them.