Civilized Society Quotes

“I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.”
― Philippa Ballantine, Phoenix Rising

“What you call law is essentially the need of an uncivilized and unfree society. A truly civilized and free society needs no law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“I think, therefore I am, but that's not all - what I think and how I think, determine what I am - an animal or a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Civilization is not the one that has an abundance of material objects to incessantly crave for, rather true civilization is the one that has an abundance of contentment regardless of material possession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“One human's despair is all humans' despair - one human's joy is all humans' joy - one human's accomplishments are all humans’ accomplishments. Such should be the genuine thinking of a civilized and conscientious human, if there is to be peace and harmony in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“The true purpose of law should not be to maintain order, rather it should be to create a truly lawless society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Be one and be civilized. By civilized I don't mean that phony kind of civilized pretense where you pretend to be egalitarian, yet the moment your kid brings home a partner of color, or of a different religion, you instantaneously burst out in shock and try either to break them apart by all cheap means available, or to convert your future in-law into your own religion. Such primitive act is no different from the acts of terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“I have shaped and nourished my mind for years to hail all women on earth as my sisters and their problems as my problems. When I am engaged in a conversation with one of my sisters anywhere in the world, my eyes are not subconsciously driven to take a quick peek down her blouse. I belong to all women, all men, everywhere, as a brother. And being a brother calls for the responsibility of thinking, feeling and behaving like a brother, instead of a potential mate-hunter. Here I am by no means insinuating that all men should see all women as sisters, rather I am pointing out that all civilized men should at the very least have the decency to see women as persons, and not as objects of sexual gratification or as potential mating partners, because only then we shall succeed as a conscientious species to give a safe and non-predatory environment to our children.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“To know whether one is civilized, one must ask three questions. Is one accountable? Is one reasonable? Is one indivisible?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Cutting edge on the outside, stoneage on the inside, that’s how we spend our life as imitation humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Naskar the person died long ago, now what lives in front of you, and indeed within you, is Naskar the idea - the idea of one humanity - the idea of a harmonious humanity - a humanity that places the benefit of the neighbor above the benefit of the self - a humanity that places the significance of shared joy above the joy of the individual - a humanity that lives not in a chaotic planet, but in a truly intertwined conscientious society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“A civilized society should mean non-judgmental communication - it should mean warm interconnection - it should mean shared psychology - it should mean a true psychological singularity. The world needs psychological singularity, that is oneness among humans, not some pompous biotechnological singularity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Can you honestly proclaim that the world is not primitive! Can you let your six-year-old go to the library a few blocks away from your apartment on her own, without worrying about her safe return! Look deep within yourself, then answer, not to me, but to yourself. If you feel the slightest bit of worry on this matter, then I'm afraid, our world is not yet made unprimitive. So, what can we do about it? Do we simply accept it as our fate and live in fear every day of our life, or do we stand up and act, so that, even if we do not have a safe and civilized world to live in, at least our children or perhaps their children will!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“People among people, such should be the way of life in a civilized society, not people against people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“A truly civilized society has no use of law and government, it's only an uncivilized society that needs them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto

“We cannot create a truly democratic society till we create a stateless society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto

“Be informed, practice reason and act with conscience – that’s the golden principle of a civilized society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent

“A norm doesn't have to be logical to exist in a civilized society, it just has to be non-prejudicial.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“What is civilization? It is a state of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Law of the jungle is self-preservation. Law of society is collective ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“No government is civilized till it abolishes all allegiance to monarchy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Civilization doesn't live in definition, it lives in action.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“None of our ancestors gave us any particular reason to be proud of them. Except for a rare few, they were all morons and they built of a world of moronity. That is more reason for us to be the first civilized ancestors to our descendants who are just born or yet to be born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Traditions born of bigotry and ignorance, are hardly a measure of civilization. Measure of civilization is an expanding spirit, one that ever evolves discarding superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Apathy, vanity, self-centricity - these are the curse of our society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“She looked to me as if she'd never been through anything more traumatic than someone fixing her coffee wrong, and I had nothing to say to her. That doctor lived in the same place my classmates did: an orderly universe governed by safety and logic. Her fancy degrees didn't change the fact that she was living a childish fiction.”
― Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

“Defy norms that are obsolete, not norms in general. Society without norms exists only in fairytale.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“To hear is to be heard,
To see is to be seen.
To speak for is to be spoken for,
Clean mind makes the world clean.

Just mind makes the world just,
Just heart makes the head just.
Just civilians make democracy just,
Just household makes the neighborhood just.

The world inside is the world outside,
When there is love inside there is love outside.
The beauty inside is the beauty outside,
When there is sense inside there is sense outside.

To sense nonsense is the highest sense,
To sense love is even higher sense.
To put all sense under love is higher still,
If there's no love in senses, all sense is nonsense.

Love sensible is no love,
You can have either sensibility or love.
If love doesn't wipe out all our fake order,
It ain't love but mere ravings of the daft.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“In attempting to become more civilized, we enter the Middle Ages.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“...perhaps the Great American Desert's importance to the Western genre derives from the nineteenth-century view of the arid West as the natural refuge of Indians and, by extension, of all outlaws. The agrarian ideal, with its roots in Rousseau's thought, defined civilisation as arising from the agricultural life, so the migratory Indians - often compared in nineteent-century writings to Tartars and Bedouin - were, by reason of their socioeconomic organisation, outside the pale of civilised society and the area in which they moved was regarded as fit only for outlaws. It is as a milieu within which men outside civilised, agrarian society resolve their tensions, both personal and social, that the Western has used the myth of the Great American Desert, as in Riders of Death Valley (Forde Beebe and Ray Taylor, 1941), The Last Wagon (Delmer Daves, 1956), The Law and Jake Wade (John Sturges, 1958) and the Boetticher cycle.”
― Colin McArthur, Cinema, A Quarterly Magazine, No. 4, October 1969