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

“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

“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

“When the Human speaks, mountains wake,
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human walks, the soil revives,
forgotten streets all come to life -
with every step, with every beat,
Awake, Arise, and Breathe Complete!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

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

“In a paradigm of hate,
be the paradox of love -
glue to the galaxy,
epoxy of the epoch.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on service, and problem solved.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Champions of freedom are champions of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

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

“Rise, O Peoples of Earth –
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar –
Fire the fascists, free the world!”
― 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

“It takes a man to know what another man is going through.”
― Kwasi Joseph Essin

“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

“Keepers of Earth (Sonnet 2656)

Every country has its local beacon of humanity,
you don't need to look to another country
to know what the best of humanity looks like -

if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Russian, think like Tolstoy -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -

if you are Serbian, think like Nikola -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal -
if you are English, think like Jane Goodall.

But if you fail to call any country your own,
if the whole charade of nationality
and tribal identity feels meaningless to you,
then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country has its local beacon of humanity -
if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal.

But If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come
and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person to embody the best of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person
to embody the best of humanity -
but I couldn't wait to find those people,
so I chose to be that person
from every culture and every country,

that's why I made these languages,
these cultures, these soils, my own,
no native, no foreign, it's all my own -

I let their air fill my lungs,
their passions permeate my veins,
their tears galvanize my heart,
their dreams resurrect my brain -

which is why, some ask for water, some ask pani -
somewhere I'm scientist, somewhere I'm sufi.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Empathy is the highest truth, everything else is mere accessory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“A human being in their complete wholeness is universally illegal in every nation state, because the jungle thrives on fragmentation, and any specimen that refuses to honor and obey fragmentation, is by default a national threat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Awake, arise, break the trance of tribe,
and the planet of apes becomes human.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Voyage of Naskar (Sonnet 2805)

If you ask me what religion am I,
I'll ask you what jungle are you from!

If you ask me what is my nationality,
I'll ask you what is your malady!

If you ask me which ideology I follow,
you tell me, which bedlam did you escape from!

No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar it! (Sonnet 2855-2857)

At birth they tag you with a flag,
a script to follow, a tribe to brag -
tell you to fit in, don't ask too much,
keep your fire, but never touch.

Unfurl your fiber, and refuse the script,
don't make pilgrimage out of jungle myths.
Break the narrative, you break the spell -
end of nationalism is end of the animal.

If the world's on autopilot, interrupt it!
If the truth feels dangerous, then conduct it!
If compassion seems radical, then ignite it!
When justice calls your name, answer it!

Don't just think it, Naskar it!
Don't believe it, Naskar it!
Question everything they permit,
if it's not human, don't submit!

Abolish the silence, and Naskar it!
Stand your ground, and Naskar it!
Love your neighbor before your leader -
don't just talk it, Naskar it!

No book on earth can claim your mind,
no single truth defines humankind -
no crown, no creed, no sacred shrine
outweighs a heart that dares to shine.

Take your doubts and carve the key,
unlock the cage of them and we.
You're more than cattle and veggie,
you are Your own Holiness and Majesty!

Don't assume it, Naskar it!
Don't preach it, Naskar it!
Every truth they counterfeit,
confront it, expose it, Naskar it!

Shoulder the world, and Naskar it!
Walk the oneness, and Naskar it!
Human first, that's all there is -
no exception, go Naskar it!

Every wall they built on prejudice,
tear it down, and dance on it!
It's not a noun, it's a verb -
it's what you do, now Naskar it!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth