Demilitarization Quotes

“A politician truly hellbent on peace focuses on education not ammunition. But finding a politician hellbent on peace is like finding snow in the Sahara.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Military is the ultimate failure of education, true education shapes minds into instrument of peace, not pawns of legal persecution and terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I'll never force you to be inclusive,
if you do harm, I'll restrain you,
but I'll never resort to weapons -
moreover, I'll never kill for inclusion,

I'll simply beg, on my knees,
I'll beg till I drop dead -
because I have nothing to lose,
no reputation, no image, no class.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
if you want peace, prepare for war.
In Naskarian we say:
if you want peace, prepare for education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Patriotism 101: How To Murder Like A Pro (Sonnet 2445)

Murder is an art,
if you do it properly
you can not only get away,
but actually be praised for it.

First and foremost,
lock your brain and heart up
in the cupboard, you don't need them,

and join a military kennel, oops, I mean academy,
spend all your conscious days and nights
finding reasons to hate those beyond the border,

and you don't need to search hard, because
since you've already abandoned civilized senses,
your animal instincts would take over, and deliver
you the enemy as per the government requirement -

you just need to make sure that, never for a second
you must let the human in you take charge, because
if it does, that's the end of all patriotic glory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every time I hear a government insist on developing weapons that could massacre millions in self-defense, I start wondering who the real terrorists are!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“A bullet can penetrate a skull, but only a book can penetrate a mind and turn bullets obsolete.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Monkeys define civilization by the capacity to kill, humans define civilization by sustainable development.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“One soldier's medal is another soldier's widow, one soldier's glory is another soldier's orphan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar Sciences of Society (Sonnet 2786)

Study colonizers, you'll understand criminology.
Study politicians, you'll understand wildlife.
Study patriotic citizens, you'll learn horticulture.
Study billionaires, you'll understand virology.

Study the soldiers, you'll understand hypnosis.
Study bureaucrats, you'll understand narcolepsy.
Study conspiracy theorists and newage nutters,
you'll find living proof of our jungle ancestry.

Textbooks are like visible light, they only reveal
a tiny, microscopic, biased sliver of reality,
while 99.9965% of the electromagnetic spectrum
remain nonexistent to the mighty brains of apekind.

Real education happens outside the textbook,
living holiness happens outside the pulpit.
Study reformers, you'll understand geology.
Study mothers, you'll understand ecology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Earthistani - The Unpatriot Anthem (2505)

There is only one nation I give a damn about,
there is only one religion I give a damn about,
there is only one tradition I give a damn about,
there is only one culture I give a damn about -

there is only one scripture I give a damn about,
there is only one constitution I give a damn about,
there is only one sacred I give a damn about,
there is only one science I give a damn about -

the scripture I heed is conscience,
the constitution I heed is backbone,
the science I practice is service,
the sacred I hold is oneness -

marham na mazhab dekhe,
marham na dekhe mulk,
la medicina no ve la fe,
my existence is the proof -

the culture I carry is integration,
the tradition I carry is tolerance,
the religion I carry is reformation -
armed with a hundred billion nerve cells,
here I stand Human, My Nation, Earthistan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The culture I carry is integration, the tradition I carry is tolerance, the religion I carry is reformation - armed with a hundred billion nerve cells, here I stand Human, My Nation, Earthistan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Either Border or Human
(Sonnet 2506)

In a planet of apes,
if you want power and control,
all you have to do is sell fear -
sell fear, blood, rage, the lot -

if you are in politics sell fear,
if you are in religion sell hate,
if you are in cinema sell rage,

but never call them by their real name,
always package it in modern language,
package bloodshed as patriotism,
package fanaticism as tradition,
package derangement as righteousness.

That's enough ape talk, now hear the human speak:
there is no place for nationalism in science,
there is no place for fanaticism in holiness,
there is no place for hate-commerce in arts,
there is no place for borders in consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You don't need much to win the trust of apes, just say you'll make lots and lots of bombs, because in the book of apes, to be free is to be feared, and to be feared is to develop the capacity to kill fellow human beings - that's an absolute must in the democracy of monkeys, not brain, not heart, not character whatsoever, just the most acute animal instinct for killing, and this is what the apes call Geopolitics!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm a traitor to every state that demands exclusive patriotism at the expense of their neighbor - I know you won't understand this, you are still monkeys after all, albeit in suits and boots, but one day your human descendants will breathe free, free from fear, free from bloodlust, free from war, because I stood as a human traitor in a planet of patriotic apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a society that spends in education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You don't need much to win the trust of apes, just say you'll make lots and lots of bombs, because in the book of apes, to be free is to be feared, and to be feared is to develop the capacity to kill fellow human beings!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Bombs can look beautiful or ugly, depending on which side you're looking from, from the sky or from the ground.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Every scientist that designs a weapon, every soldier that picks up the weapon, every politician that deploys the soldier, every civilian that elects the politician, is a war criminal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Earthlog 3002-3003

In many of the monkey nations of earth
their local governments often ban books,
and yet not a single earth country
has banned guns, not a single one -

in some countries you just need money,
in some countries you need a licence,
in others you need to be a soldier or copper,
but not a single country has actually banned guns,
they even ban websites and apps at the slightest
political inconvenience, but never guns.

These are the same animals that
claim to be an intelligent species,
they even cook up aristocratic names
for themselves, such as "sapiens",
meaning wise, or "humanity", implying
qualities like kindness and tolerance!

For a species only a couple of hundred thousand
years old, these hairless apes do have some
intelligence, there's no doubt about that,
but their intelligence seems to have a knack
more for destruction than good -

not only that, they even set up establishments
to normalize their incessant bloodlust as tradition,
and punish dissenters as traitors!

Earth monkeys confuse terrorism for civilization,
exploitation for exploration, prejudice for heritage,
inequality for economy, indifference for democracy,
in fact, there are very few lifeforms in the galaxy
as cannibalistic as the monkeys of the blue rock,
despite being ridiculously capable in every respect.

Humans are like the trees of planet earth,
extremely rare in the universe, yet still wasted.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth country has banned guns, not a single one - in some countries you just need money, in some countries you need a licence, in others you need to be a soldier or copper, but not a single country has actually banned guns, they even ban websites and apps at the slightest political inconvenience, but never guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth country has banned guns - in some countries you just need money, in some countries you need a licence, in others you need to be a soldier or copper, but not a single country has actually banned guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Tall skyscrapers don't constitute civilization, if half the population still sleep on the streets - space exploration doesn't constitute advancement, if half the children never wake up the next day”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.

Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love,
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Fugitive Peace (The Song)

[Verse 1]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.

Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.

[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.

Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!

[Verse 2]
Show me a nation with a titanic army,
I'll show you a society in decay.
Show me a nation that spends on education,
I'll show you tomorrow being built today.

War is the currency of political power -
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.
Yet there is no stranger, only neighbor;
everyone is family, no one is foreigner.

[Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.

Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!

[Verse 3]
A world without borders
is a world without fear,
it's impossible to control people
when we neither hate nor fear.

Every ape has a talent for war,
takes a human to rise in peace.
Wild animals look good only in jungle,
xenophobia is the ultimate brain disease.

[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond fear and fanaticism,
beyond brainless indoctrination,
every culture is my culture,
every nation is my nation.

No borrowed make believe,
no quicksand of cowardice,
superstition fading from bones,
as we rise above the prejudice.

[Final Chorus]
Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
If there is not a Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.

Stronger the military, stupider the citizens;
military is the failure of education.
Wake up to life, break the trance of arms,
and the planet of apes becomes human!

[Outro]
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...
One pen can defeat a thousand guns...”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Every war is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Every war is friendly fire (Sonnet 3004-3006)

I mean think about this, someone back in the days actually thought, they ought to have a more convenient way to dispose of dissenters, so they designed the guillotine, and later in the modern days, the same kind of apes designed guns, for the same animal purpose, with the same cannibalistic mentality, and I use the term "modern" sarcastically.

And please, my child, do not go all hot and patriotic to say that weapons have their use, because guess what, every weapon designed for defense eventually ends up claiming more innocent lives than criminal ones, let's call it the Naskarian Principle of Armament;

every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than preventing it, guillotine took disproportionately more innocent lives than actually guilty ones in the old days, and today, guns claim more innocent lives than actual terrorists -

usually it's just one soldier killing another soldier, both driven by the same patriotic spirit, pulled like string puppets by warmongers masquerading as world leaders.

In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Every weapon inadvertently ends up causing more harm than it prevents.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes