Quotes by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

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Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.
--(Shri Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1902-1975), "Atheism and Morality" in Atheism Questions and Answers.
Human problems are more psychological than materialistic. This is not only true of individual behaviour, but in mass action also. A suggestion from a leader sparks off a revolution. Material circumstances help mass action, but in themselves do not raise action. The conditions of untouchability and of poverty in India, especially at the time of famine in Bengal in 1945-46, when thousands of destitutes died of sheer hunger in the streets of Calcutta City, are such as would provoke an immediate revolution. But the revolution does not come off in the Indian masses. The reason is clear. In India there are revolutionary circumstances, but there is no revolutionary consciousness among the people. If the revolutionary consciousness is present, people would revolt against any injustice on the slightest pretext. And consciousness is essentially psychological.
"Switzerland" in An Atheist Around The World
Further, economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.
Atheism Questions and Answers

 Right wins only when we dare and act.(Futile Talk, January, 1973)

 The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

 Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?(Futile Talk, January, 1973)

 Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.

 We respect law, when the law respects our needs.