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Abhijit Naskar
“Faith can be unholy,
science can be inhuman,
none depends on the tool,
all depends on the person.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

Abhijit Naskar
“Fall in love, make mistakes,
get your heart broken every weekend.
Build your character before the promise,
nothing more vulgar than a vow broken.”
Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

Omar El Akkad
“It's not surprising, I don't think, that in the midst of this indiscriminate killing, many of the Westerners doing the most active work in opposing genocide are Jews. Here is love born of pain, if the past century's most horrific crime, love of one's own spread outward into love of another. Whatever the empire is, it has no idea what to do with this kind of love, which adheres neither to the empire’s own central principle of self-interest nor to the adjoining principle that solidarity is only with one’s own, that love for one’s people may never become love for another.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad
“Anyone who has dragged a relative out from under the wreckage of a bombed building, who has held a friend bleeding to death in the street while the officer who pulled the trigger looks on, who has watched their water poisoned, their land burned, their communities starved, is intimately well versed in love. But in the eyes of the empire such a thing can never be called love, because the directive was never in the first place, Love, but rather, Love me. In spite of it all, love me.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad
“One day the killing will be over, either because the oppressed will have their liberation or because there will be so few left to kill. We will be expected to forget any of it ever happened, to acknowledge it if need be but only in harmless, perfunctory ways. Many of us will, if only as a kind of psychological self-defense. So much lives and dies by the grace of endless forgetting.

But so many will remember. We say that, sometimes, when it's our children killed: Remember. And it may seem now like it's someone else's children, but there's no such thing as someone else's children. The problem with fixating on the abyss into which one's opponent has descended while simultaneously digging one's own is that, eventually, it gets too dark to tell the difference.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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