>"The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to suppress and enslave humanity." (B.R. Ambedkar)
>"The Hindu religion has made the people slaves and destroyed their sense of reason." (Periyar)
>"The Brahmins have enslaved the minds of the people by spreading lies in the name of religion." (Jyotirao Phule)
>"The Brahmanic system is a most wonderful structure, but also a most gigantic engine of priestly fraud" (Max Müller)
>"in truth … the Hindoo … excels in the qualities of a slave. … dissembling, treacherous, mendacious, to an excess which surpasses even the usual measure of uncultivated society" (James Mill)
>"The basis of their religion is a degrading superstition; the Brahmins, its ministers, are the most corrupt of men; and the people, sunk in ignorance, are their willing slaves." (Abbé J. A. Dubois)
>“The system of Hinduism is a huge fabric of error and corruption… a monstrous compound of the most abject superstition and the most revolting impurity.” (Rev. Alexander Duff)
>"The Hindu gods are monsters of vice; their worship, a school of wickedness" (William Ward)
>"A single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia" (Thomas B. Macaulay)
>"The religion of the Hindoos is a compound of the most monstrous absurdities, and the grossest idolatry." (Charles Grant)
>"The Puranas are full of falsehood, foolish stories, and false miracles" (S.D. Saraswati)
>"The Hindoo religion is the parent of the most cruel and revolting customs" (Col. Thomas Munro)