Premchand Quotes on Society

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Verified quotations by Premchand concerning society, caste, inequality, justice, and social relations.

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Why are we low and they high? Just because they wear a sacred thread around their neck?

Society
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Who understands the pain of the poor! We may even die, and no one comes to our door; giving a shoulder is a different matter.

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She will go to heaven; otherwise, will these fat people go, who rob the poor with both hands and wash their sins by bathing in the Ganges and offering water at temples?

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They steal, they commit fraud, they bring false lawsuits. In what way are they higher than us?

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The whole village drinks water from this well. No one is forbidden, only these unfortunate people cannot draw it.

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This is what is called a panchayat! Milk has been separated from water and water from milk.

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In a society where the condition of those who worked day and night was not much better than theirs, the emergence of such a mentality was hardly surprising.

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Merely passing examinations is nothing; the real thing is the development of intellect. Whatever you read, understand its meaning.

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They have made us work, but paying wages is like pulling out their teeth.

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How can they claim to be higher than us? We do not go around shouting that we are high-born.

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Poor Mahangu was beaten so badly that he kept spitting blood for months. And for what? Because he had refused to perform unpaid labor.

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Such is their pride: they are convinced that they are high-born.