Abhay Nanda

“It is better to be ridiculed for too great a credulity than to be ruined by too confident a sense of security.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India

“Any Government which denied this elementary right of freedom of speech and freedom of action did not deserve allegiance from the people.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India

“If in any state there is a body of men who possess unlimited political power, those over whom they rule can never be free.For, the one assured result of historical investigation is the lesson that uncontrolled power is invariably poisonous to those who possess it. They are always tempted to impose their canon of good upon others, and in the end, they assume that the good of the community depends upon the continuance of their power. Liberty always demands a limitation of political authority.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India

“Nationality is a social feeling. It is a feeling of a corporate sentiment of oneness which makes those who are charged with it feel that they are kith and kin. This national feeling is a double edged feeling. It is at once a feeling of fellowship for one’s own kith and kin and an anti-fellowship feeling for those who are not one’s own kith and kin. It is a feeling of “consciousness of kind” which on the one hand binds together those who have it, so strongly that it over-rides all differences arising out of economic conflicts or social gradations and, on the other, severs them from those who are not of their kind. It is a longing not to belong to any other group. This is the essence of what is called a nationality and national feeling.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Pakistan or Partition of India