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  • Ideas are fatal to caste. -- E. M. Forster
  • There is no caste in blood. -- Edwin Arnold
  • Castes never meant that much to me. -- Kiera Cass
  • The West remains obsessed by the caste system. -- Francois Gautier
  • Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am! -- Kabir
  • The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. -- Guru Nanak
  • The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits -- H. L. Mencken
  • It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society. -- Sargent Shriver
  • Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • 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. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • 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
  • We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner
  • In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. -- Juan Goytisolo
  • When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy. -- Ruud Gullit
  • Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research. -- Aristotle
  • Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. -- Rudyard Kipling
  • I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities. They are now aware of the particular community making a living by spreading the foolishness. People have begun to hate god, religion, caste, mythologies (puranas) and so on". -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse. -- Mark Twain
  • The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance. -- Gary Steiner
  • The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. -- Herbert Read
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