Humanitarianism Quotes

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
― Mike Norton

“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.”
― Jerry DeWitt, Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism

“As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had been going on since the end of the Second World War, which was surely “World War Three.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”
― Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Sometimes, a war saves people.”
― Jose Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.”
― Agnes Kamara-umunna, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation

“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

“One week of my life produces enough electricity to power a hundred years of humanitarian intervention.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Azad Earth Army (The Sonnet)

From river to the sea,
Al Shams to Alpha Centauri,
I'll radicalize each child into
a volcanic veteran of inclusivity.

Palestine, Kashmir, America,
every territory will be humanized,
without resorting to canon calls,
for my soldiers are walking dynamite!

Give me a speck of spinal nerve,
I'll weave awaken bulldozing thunder!
My patriots are keeper of the world,
not stately pawn of terror and blunder.

Awake, arise, adopt the world,
let no monkey nationalize your humanity.
Final call to a free* world, you,
o bravehearts, are my *Azad Earth Army!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The Great Superstition (Sonnet)

Fundamentalists radicalize
children for illegal terrorism,
nationalists radicalize
children for legal terrorism,

I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness,
using only their brain and backbone,
without spilling the blood of human.
Only leeches live by guns and call it honor,
brainwashed by the witchcraft of patriotism.

Fundamentalism, nationalism, these are the real
witchcraft, still practiced by modern savages.
Teachers, coppers, politicians, civil servants,
all (most) mindlessly carry the paradigm of death.

Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts,
I'll wipe out the very concept of war.
Pack your flags with other talismans,
there is no greater superstition
than the superstition of nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts, I'll wipe out the very concept of war.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness... Give me a hundred humanitarian hearts, I'll wipe out the very concept of war. Pack your flags with other talismans, there is no greater superstition than the superstition of nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“All very humanitarian, but why?' said Twoflower. 'It’ll all be the same in an hour.' 'Because,' said Rincewind vaguely”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“Revolution is when character expands a hundred folds, and love is placed at the altar of mind - when nothing in the world is so important, as the good of humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla is my empire - I am Visvaviking!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla, my empire - I am the World Viking!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't want you to be a brainless fan,
I want you to be a bigger legend than me.
Surpass me in mind, surpass me in vision,
surpass me in everything, even in humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“When one Naskar dies, a thousand Naskars will rise up to take the place. They will stand up wherever there is bigotry, wherever there is discrimination, injustice and inequality, they will stand up wherever there is oppression, segregation and crisis.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Black, white, brown, red, yellow, hetero, homo, trans, poor, rich, literate, illiterate, weak, strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

“Gentle and tolerant in default demeanor, tenacious in reason facing prejudice, neither religious nor intellectual, I am a humanitarian fundamentalist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Give me a pen, I'll give you peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“One pen can defeat a thousand guns, that's why books get banned, not guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I burnt my youth, so that you could have a torch. Take this torch and ignite yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“I'm just a mediocre scientist with an unworldly drive for integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Unwrite Me, You Cannot (Sonnet 1949)

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
no matter how much you try, you cannot unwrite me.
My childhood friends are now parents to children,
while I stand alone as the keeper of humanity.

Even the woman I once dreamt a life with, is now
a mother, yet my struggle continues for eternity.
May they all have a full and flourishing life,
but mine is to die as the lampbearer of liberty.

I took the road less travelled, of my own accord,
so the marginalized could have some tranquility.
There's nothing groundbreaking in a life of comfort,
we break ground by being antidote to animosity.

I've written my life on the fabric of time,
try all you like, unwrite me, you cannot.
You can pin me to the ground or on the wall,
but unsee, unhear, unwrite me, you cannot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I don't write sonnets, I rewrite society with my sonnets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Servant of the people is samurai sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets

“My Cosmic Soldiers (The Sonnet)

Bloodline is of no consequence,
We gotta pass on galvanizing ideas.
I may quite easily die without heir,
World is in care of my cosmic soldiers.

My life is the best book I've written,
Rest are just spoils of my pilgrimage.
Embark as explorer transcending words,
Service to the world is truest of homage.

You may know me from the gifs,
You may know me from my sonnets.
Mere knowing counts for nothing,
Sail the sea forgetting safety nets.

My soldiers are my gift to cosmos,
archaic narrowness is no match for them.
I got martyred in the making of a life,
to shine as beacon for generations to come.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee