The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.
Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.
I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.
As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
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.
Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them).
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.
Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
The West remains obsessed by the caste system.
Caste is important for selection of home minister.
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.