Humanist Quotes

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us. Yet if she is sick, it is because mankind is sick and separated. And if our vibrations are bad, she reacts to it, as do all living creatures.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“You hunger for tall walls, I hunger for tall humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Radiate enough affection and we reboot the planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Heroes are merely idiots who didn't graduate into cruelty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“My design is the grand design, human heart is the engine divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I place neither faith nor facts above the human, both must elevate human condition, or else both are equally redundant. History is full of people who were correct and cruel, history is full of people who were religious and animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“So, by freedom, I suppose I am referring to a personal pursuit, of sorts, and self-realization through consciousness of our individual selves — the spiritual essence that differentiates one person from another. If more of us went after this kind of freedom, the world would be a more diverse, more inclusive, more equal, and richer place. It would be all the more colorful. The pursuit of freedom is what shapes our individual trajectories, our personal goals, and stops us from having to vie for space on a single, narrow path.”
― Hu Anyan, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

“Stars that burn for others, wither in body, but live in light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Rise, O Children of Earth,
no matter the color or culture,
you have more heart than ape empires,
more soul than parasites and vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty,
now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Blood doesn't make us human, skin doesn't make us human, culture doesn't make us human, we're only human when the suffering of another makes us forget our color, culture, and the entire circus of animal behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no truth, only love - there is no ethic, only empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is nothing above me, nothing is underneath. The day I left the ape behind, the jungle lost a sheep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“To hell with skin, to hell with flag, to hell with culture, scripture, and tradition – every people ever wronged are our people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Apes have highnesses and excellencies, for apes have compost for a brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Dervish Burns
(Naskaristana 2791-2794)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot have arms,
and not stretch in aid.
You cannot have feet,
and not burn the chains.

You cannot have veins,
and not boil at cruelty.
You cannot have nerves,
and not ignite at injustice.

You cannot have government,
and homelessness too.
You cannot have innovation,
and fail accessibility too.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have godmen,
and claim to know the truth.
You cannot be fundamentalist,
and have faith too.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.

You cannot have culture,
and fail integration.
You cannot have internet,
and fail common sense.

You cannot have a society,
and fail empathy.
You cannot have language,
and fail understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No wall is tall enough to contain my height, no pulpit sacred enough to baptize my eye, no table broad enough to accommodate my shoe, no accolade is bright enough to add to my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm the Original Virtue that predates vermin vaticans,
I'm the First Piety that predates all promised estate.
I'm the Sacred Science that defangs all poison saffron,
I'm the Ink of Mind that outdates doctrinal malignance.

I'm the Original Swastika that predates all reichs,
I'm the Sunrise that outlives puny stars and stripes.
I'm Justice, I'm Dervish, I'm phenyl to the fascist -
my footsteps are the law, I'm pesticide to prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)

Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.

Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.

You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.

You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another - truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.

I'm Noel, I'm Iftar -
I'm oneness, I'm Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock