Humanitarian Quotes

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.”
― Dr. Albert Schweitzer

“Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join me.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

“I wish the enemy would hesitate to shoot when they see me, but you can't expect humanitarianism on the battlefield.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world. And tomorrow there will be a hundred more stupid like me, for this stupidity for changing the world can never accept any excuse for inaction, even if that excuse happens to be a most rational reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“I have neither the brain nor the desire, to be the most brilliant scientist in history, but I do wield all the capacities of time, to be the most spectacular human in history”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I am not a one-man army, I am one-human humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“You are a living powerhouse of love and good, question is, will you be brave and come true?”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“All governments are a facade,
all politicians are merely actors.
In a civilized world citizen is the leader,
obsolete is the profession of world leaders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Citizen is The Leader (Sonnet)

I have made a few amendments in my own canon,
I don't mean going back and removing passages,
as if they never existed, for that's deception,
rather I point out my errors myself, so you know,
I ain't infallible, on occasion I have been wrong.

My main two mistakes were with America 'n soldiers,
I looked upon both with respect in my early years,
until it dawned on me, America is a terrorist state,
and all soldiers are mere puppets to warmongers.

All governments are a facade,
all politicians are merely actors.
In a civilized world citizen is the leader,
obsolete is the profession of world leaders.

In a civilized world I could spend my days writing
mushy poetry, sparing the headache of human rights.
But alas, that is not the case, hence, I'm restless,
sleepless, vacationless, in kindling the human light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You don't wake up to a better world, you toil through the dead of night, so the world wakes up civilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Life's meaning comes not from what we gain for ourselves, but from what we give up for others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I am vast beyond the spell of tribe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Some faces, some names, some ideas, instantly ruin a bigot's day.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Stereotypes are sanity of the jungle,
prejudice is sacred in the animal kingdom.
Flags are the poison, cosmos is (my) kin -
I am no stereotype, I am the Prototype Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Prototype Human (Sonnet 2249)

The pen is my paradise,
the pen is my grave.
Everybody has all the answers,
I seem to have only questions.

Good thing, I don't know how to write,
methods are obstacle to my madness.
I'm vast enough to contain the world,
asylum pills don't work on pilgrim brains.

My pen never runs out of ink, because
the pen is an extension of my anatomy.
Madness is the first sign of sanity,
oneness is the seed of infinity.

Stereotypes are sanity of the jungle,
prejudice is sacred in the animal kingdom.
Flags are the poison, cosmos is (my) kin -
I am no stereotype, I am the Prototype Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I am no stereotype, I am the Prototype Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I hand you only one homework for life - the Homework of Humanity. Fix it, mend it, do whatever is necessary; throw out tradition, put in tradition, just build the world properly human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Either love outlasts hate or extinction outruns evolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“The Sun is beyond the realms of humility and hubris, I'm neither humble nor hubrous, just burning with mission.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Backbone battery, brain currency, heart bedrock.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
for the people, by the people.
In Naskarian we say:
my world, my responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: blood is thicker than water. In Naskarian we say: humanity is thicker than blood and border.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
necessity is the mother of invention.
In Naskarian we say:
compassion is the mother of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I take care of the world as my family, and someone somewhere will take care of my immediate family when I am not there, that's the kind of blind illogical faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“If a 3 pound brain can contain a 100 billion nerve cells, a planet with land the size of 20 billion stadiums should have room for 10 billion people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every Time An Ape is Born (Sonnet 2410)

Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.

There's no conspiracy, just convention, for this setup is ideal for profit, it's ideal for political power - more divided the apes are, less they question what's inhuman,

which is why infant apes are brainwashed day in, day out: 'our culture is truth supreme, other cultures are alien' -

even the schools are plugged into this system, along with the media, all aimed at one systemic objective, apes must never become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I look after the world as family, so the world may look after my family, when I'm not there - that's the kind of blind faith that actually makes a difference.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace