- “Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Film Testament
- “When the fire of love engulfs our whole being, time will bear witness to humanity’s uprising.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society
- “Till the whole world becomes our family, no family can live in peace.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
- “My Compatriots (The Sonnet)Any compatriot of mine,Better have a grasp of prejudice.Arrogance sickens my soul,My heart revolts at the snobbish.Doubts can be healthy,But only if driven by curiosity.When driven by contempt,They only facilitate animosity.You don’t have to agree,With the whole of my notion.But don’t turn bitter my friend,For it is a trap of degradation.Logic may fail sometimes as well as sentiments.Never you lose o patriot your indivisible humanness.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
- “The questioning of any and all entities, including belief and its objects, is one of Christianity’s most impressive legacies; and humanism, its rebellious child, must not be prevented from developing this legacy [ «et l’humanisme, son enfant rebelle, ne saurait être empêché de développer ce legs. » ].” ― Julia Kristeva, This Incredible Need to Believe
- “Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “Pride is not an LGBT celebration, it’s a human rights celebration – it’s a celebration of equality – it’s a celebration of inclusion – it’s a celebration of acceptance.” ― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance
- “Michael: You won’t really know what’s going to happen to you. That’s what makes it special. I won’t exactly know what’s going to happen after I die. Nothing more human than that.” ― The Good Place
- “Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God’s bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.” ― William Shakespeare
- “The Renaissance was the culture of a wealthy and powerful upper class, on the crest of the wave which was whipped up by the storm of new economic forces. The masses who did not share the wealth and power of the ruling group had lost the security of their former status and had become a shapeless mass, to be flattered or to be threatened—but always to be manipulated and exploited by those in power. A new despotism arose side by side with the new individualism. Freedom and tyranny, individually and disorder, were inextricably interwoven. The Renaissance was not a culture of small shopkeepers and petty bourgeois but of wealthy nobles and burghers. Their economic activity and their wealth gave them a feeling of freedom and a sense of individually. But at the same time, these same people had lost something: the security and feeling of belonging which the medieval social structure had offered. They were more free, but they were also more alone. They used their power and wealth to squeeze the last ounce of pleasure out of life; but in doing so, they had to use ruthlessly every means, from physical torture to psychological manipulation, to rule over the masses and to check their competitors within their own class. All human relationships were poisoned by this fierce life-and-death struggle for the maintenance of power and wealth. Solidarity with one’s fellow man—or at least with the members of one’s own class—was replaced by a cynical detached attitude; other individuals were looked upon as “objects” to be used and manipulated, or they were ruthlessly destroyed if it suited one’s own ends. The individual was absorbed by a passionate egocentricity, an insatiable greed for power and wealth. As a result of all this, the successful individual’s relation to his own self, his sense of security and confidence were poisoned too. His own self became as much an object of manipulation to him as other persons had become. We have reasons to doubt whether the powerful masters of Renaissance capitalism were as happy and as secure as they are often portrayed. It seems that the new freedom brought two things to them: an increased feeling of strength and at the same time an increased isolation, doubt, scepticism, and—resulting from all these—anxiety. It is the same contradiction that we find in the philosophical writings of the humanists. Side by side with their emphasis on human dignity, individuality, and strength, they exhibited insecurity and despair in their philosophy.” ― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
- “To slur “feminism” into “humanism” is to usurp women’s voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.” ― Gina Barreca
- “If you say, “let there be light”, and then act with all your capacity to make it a reality, only then there will be light and hope in the world.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
- “The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.” ― Erich Fromm, On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power
- “Most humans think – “we are living our life, the world is not our business.” And that’s precisely where not only everything gets messed up, but more importantly, that’s where humanity loses the right to be called human, for being human requires possessing a sense of responsibility towards the society we live in, without which we might as well be living in the jungle with our fellow animals.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
- “Peace SonnetPeace doesn’t grow on trees,Nor is it produced in factories.It has been a concept of books,Must it stay that way for centuries!Where argumentation is afoot,The mission becomes a phantom.Where the mind thrives on tradition,Peace is an inconvenience to the norm.Peace is but a myth most foul,An annoying goal that demands a lot.We just prefer our cozy cocoons,Giving up any of it is just plain absurd.But there is a cure to the war disease.Loosen your knots and there’ll be peace.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I’ll give you peace
- “In a civilized world there is no my people and your people, it’s all one people.” ― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
- “I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “I am no human – I am the unifying force of nature – I am the One and I am the All – in me lies the possibility of human harmony – in me lies the possibility of human acceptance – I am the driving force of conscience – I am the absolute timeless ocean of unified sentience.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
- “To live for others is real religious life.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
- “HUMAN means Harmony – HUMAN means Unity – HUMAN means Magnanimity – HUMAN means Acceptance – HUMAN means Nobility.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
- “John Stuart Mill certainly underwent a spiritual crisis as a young man, which made him unhappy with the colder kinds of rationalism in which he had been instructed by his father. But he never turned toward any idea of God, a conception he regarded as fatuous and unimpressive, not to say self-evidently silly. He turned instead toward a larger and more humane idea of what reform might be, not his father’s ideal of utilitarian measurement but one that took in Mozart, music, love, and literature. He never stopped thinking that alleviating other people’s pain is the first duty of public policy. What liberals have, he thought, is better than a religion. It is a way of life.” ― Adam Gopnik
- “When the soul is clear enough to reflect all, all separation will turn into memories.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society
- “There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “A secular government is a human government, whereas a non-secular government is a government of animals.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker’s Almanac
- “We treat others badly not because we don’t understand how people should be treated but because we don’t really consider them people.” ― Michael Austin, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America’s Civic Tradition
- “Freedom, salvation, secularism, humanity all these are merely myriad names of the same realization – the realization of oneness.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
- “Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” ― George Carlin
- “…if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of others; and would not be satisfied with being thought a goddess, if none were left that were miserable, over whom she might insult. Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they may feel their poverty the more sensibly.” ― Thomas More, Utopia