- “You are your own messiah.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense
- “Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, herders, and peasants are fully human, anthropologists often comment on their orientation to the present, the local, the physical. To be aware of one’s country and its history, of the diversity of customs and beliefs across the globe and through the ages, of the blunders and triumphs of past civilizations, of the microcosms of cells and atoms and the macrocosms of planets and galaxies, of the ethereal reality of number and logic and pattern—such awareness truly lifts us to a higher plane of consciousness. It is a gift of belonging to a brainy species with a long history.” ― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- “The world doesn’t need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
- “You don’t need to be intelligent to be good.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
- “Between the two poles of community – blood and ideal – stretches the enormous and, to a certain degree, indeterminate public sphere, which is not quite comprehensible in either political or economic terms and where the entire risk of the humiliation of human dignity is given.” ― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
- “Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of humanism – the path where every pedestrian is simply a human, not a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Mexican, American, Canadian, British, Australian, Russian, Asian, African, European or anything else.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
- “The experience of humanism is that ‘nothing human is alien to me’; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am the man who lived 100000 years ago and the man who will live 100000 years from now.” ― Erich Fromm
- “It’s not the awards and prizes that add value to one’s work, it’s the work that adds value to the awards and prizes.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “Drawing a cross on your forehead won’t get you into heaven, for real heaven can only manifest around us on earth, if we, the individual humans, start acting as civilized creatures of conscience and character.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
- “Tears speak the same tongue wherever they are shed. Smiles speak the same tongue wherever they are cracked. They don’t discriminate between humans, why would you!” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” ― Sam Harris
- “This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered –it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can’t be good without belief in God is not just an opinion, a mere curious musing — it is a prejudice.” ― Greg Epstein, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
- “I am not left, I am not right, I am only human.” ― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
- “We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia” ― Neda Aria
- “The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves us unimproved; it actually leaves us being less than we were prior to making those assessments. I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings; rather than find and fix the shortcomings in others. And if all people were to do this, then we would be a race of creatures looking inward, in order to bring out something better. Now think of what a beautiful race that would be.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Any attempt to hold ideologies accountable for the crimes committed by their followers must be approached with a great deal of caution. It’s too easy to assert that those with whom we disagree are not just wrong but tyrannical, fascist, genocidal.” ― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- “Justice on earth is no legal matter, If one soul is hurt all must rise together.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
- “It’s in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
- “Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “I am human by birth, human by heart and human by action, I don’t need any other shallow identity.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I’ll give you peace
- “Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Be annihilated in love for the society and no gun, no grief, no grudge will remain in the world.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude
- “My species should know the following about itself:-The universe created the ultimate abstract life-form by creating man, but scarcity “programmed” him to this current, ridiculously diminished version of himself.-Everyone and every community (clan) is everybody’s and every community’s future ally and brother in arms in what will be humanity’s decisive stand against scarcity, whether they realize it, desire it, or deny it.” ― Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
- “I give you “The Human Hymn” for the times when you feel depleted, desolate and defeated.I am the Vedanta, I am the Bible,I am the Quran, I am the God Cell.I am the Torah, I am the Suttas,I am the Hadith, I am Humanitas.I am the Son, I am Jehovah,I am the Qi, I am Bismillah.I am the Vivek, I am the Ananda,I am the Bodhi, I am the Sattva.I am the Sat, I am the Shri,I am Akaal, I am Brahmasmi.I am the Prophet, I am Aminah, I am the Mother, I am the Krishna.I am the Beginning, I am the Anth,I am the Journey, I am Ananth.I am Creation, I am the Ravager,I am Qayamat, I am the Creator.” ― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance
- “Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.” ― Daisaku Ikeda
- “Don’t Fear, They Judge Anyway,Show your Unhappy Side too, I am there;Someday many of us will Too. Of all the Rich & Poor,Of all the Caste & Creed,We are Humans First, To Curb our Primary Thirst- Love!” ― Somya Kedia
- “Practicing a thousand yoga postures, doesn’t make a person spiritual, nor does uttering “aum” or “hallelujah” a thousand times – what makes a person spiritual, is plain ordinary everyday act of kindness.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
- “Everyone is mad for something, I am mad for everyone.” ― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
- “Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.” ― Sam Killermann