Success Quote by B. R. Ambedkar

Ambedkar strips away the comforting fiction that moral persuasion, by itself, moves history. The line lands like a cold audit: when “ethics” collides with “economics,” the balance sheet tends to win. It’s not cynicism for sport; it’s a diagnostic tool aimed at societies that congratulate themselves on ideals while protecting the machinery that profits from injustice.

The phrasing is deliberately unromantic. “History shows” invokes evidence over sentiment, an appeal to pattern rather than hope. “Always” is the sharp edge - not a literal claim that morality never triumphs, but a warning about default outcomes when power is left unchallenged. Ambedkar’s real target is the liberal fantasy of gradual enlightenment: the belief that if you merely expose hypocrisy, beneficiaries will relinquish advantage. He answers with a harder anthropology. “Vested interests” don’t “divest” voluntarily; the wordplay is almost legalistic, and that’s the point. He frames exploitation as a property right people defend, not a misunderstanding they outgrow.

Context matters. As the leading architect of India’s Constitution and the most formidable critic of caste as an economic order, Ambedkar understood that “social reform” collides with material arrangements: land, labor, access, marriage markets, status capital. His subtext is strategic: ethical argument must be backed by institution, law, collective action - “sufficient force” meaning not brute violence alone, but organized counter-power capable of changing incentives and imposing costs. The quote endures because it refuses to let morality be a substitute for politics.