Demilitarization Quotes

“Orphanizers (Demilitarization Sonnet, 1303)

Show me a nation with a huge defense budget,
I'll show you a demented nation.
Show me a nation with a big education budget,
I'll show you a nation of the future.

Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers,
Thus you plant the paradigm of peace.
Abolish all pride in nation's military,
Thus you emerge as maker of peace.

The real warmongers of the world are,
Not the world leaders, but the civilians,
Who can't think past the strength of military,
Who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.

With such civilian primitiveness rampant in society,
No conference can ensure the promise of peace.
If you really want to ensure peace on planet earth,
Denounce all politics and democracy militarist.

Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“World First, Nation Never
(Denationalizing Sonnet)

No government wants to manufacture terror,
But they do want to manufacture control.
In doing so they end up manufacturing terror,
Thus they end up manufacturing war.

There is no such thing as war on terrorism,
The whole narrative is rigged to peddle fear.
Citizens without fear are citizens without border,
Democratic autocracy thrives on civilian fear.

Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.

World first and forever, nation never;
Till then, all blood is on your hands.
Either you are a nation’s simian citizen,
or you are planet earth’s civilized human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“World first and forever, nation never.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the highest form of defense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers, thus we plant the paradigm of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The real warmongers of the world are, not the world leaders, but the civilians, who can't think past the strength of military, who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“My Struggle (Sonnet 1500)

My struggle is to build a world, where
gestapo, mi6, cia, raw, all are history;
where thieves aren't glorified as heroes,
invasion isn't sugarcoated as security;

military is found only in books of history,
where guns are displayed in museum as relics;
nukes are just defense against celestial threat,
where green sources power all things electric;

where it's illegal to amass limitless wealth -
food, housing, education, healthcare, are free;
where no one can be politician without license,
where citizens listen to experts, not celebrity.

My struggle is to build a world, where
human rights is a human issue, not legal one;
where equality is not a belief, but the norm -
where human is neither ape nor robot, but human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Genocide is Patriotism
(Sonnet 1634)

National anthems count for nothing,
when the nations are full of monkeys,
monkeys who keep buying bloodshed,
in the name of national security.

Genocide is patriotism, thus teaches
the textbook of defense and diplomacy.
What else do you expect from legal texts,
concocted by a bunch of stoneage monkeys!

Monkey kill, monkey laugh -
Monkeys are honored with medal!
Airforce, army, navy - so many ways
to maintain status quo of the jungle!

The purpose of every national anthem is to
enforce and maintain a status quo of war.
Show me a human without national pride,
I'll show you the pathway out of war.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Naskar's Folly (The Sonnet)

If your perception doesn't evolve with time,
It's not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.

In one of my early works I called America,
"a great country, built by great people,"
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.

I once naively asked to 'appreciate the soldiers',
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, "military is legal terrorism."

Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“It's a sad state of affairs when you get used to the sight of blood, glorifying aggression as bravehearted. It's a sad state of affairs when you feel good dressing up for gala, while children are being bombed to death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Visvavitamin (The Sonnet)

It's a sad state of affairs when
you get used to the sight of blood,
glorifying aggression as bravehearted.
It's a sad state of affairs when
you feel good dressing up for gala,
while children are being bombed to death.

Sometimes aggression may be our last resort,
but never normalize it as civilized way of life.
The beast in me knows well to crush bones,
but the reformer I am, works to preserve life.

It's a sad state of affairs when
prejudice is glorified as piety,
and curiosity is branded blasphemy,
when lies are honored as liberty,
and empathy is declared unholy.

Bandaid to the broken, backbone to the fallen.
Vital to world-light, we are Visvavitamin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“World War Peace (The Sonnet)

The same paradigm that produces
soldiers, produces terrorists.
In fact, soldiers are just
government approved terrorists.

Till the military is the most
dishonorable profession on earth,
you can forget about world peace,
forget about peaceful coexistence.

Military are the real terrorists,
regular terrorists are the byproducts,
all manufactured by state leaders,
sponsored by jungle civilians.

Love of country is the root of all war,
Every patriot is a potential terrorist.
Learn to love the world as one country,
The paradigm will shift from war to peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“War is the symptom, patriotism is the disease.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“War is the symptom,
patriotism is the disease.
Terrorists harbor patriotism,
Reformists harbor peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“You know what distinguishes a reformist from a terrorist! The capacity to destroy the world, yet choosing not to.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Nationalism manufactures more widows and orphans than disease and disaster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Armistice Sonnet

Ceasefire is a diplomatic gimmick,
They cease only to hit back harder.
Demilitarization is what we need,
We got no use for one more ceasefire.

Ceasefire only postpones war,
disarmament instills peace.
Armistice empowers armament,
demilitarization plants peace.

Tyrants don't call truce to allow aid,
but only to rearm themselves,
so they can call in more ammunition,
from their apely imperialist friends.

One more ceasefire we could do without,
World is wailing for the final ceasefire.
Disown every statesman who prides military,
Builders of military are merchants of murder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Ceasefire only postpones war,
disarmament instills peace.
Armistice empowers armament,
demilitarization plants peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Peace, A Crime Against State
(The Sonnet)

There's no difference between
a soldier and a contract killer.
Hitmen are paid to kill individuals,
Soldiers are paid to kill in bulk.

Righteous soldiers don't exist,
they only exist in fairytale movies.
No academy trains youngsters for peace,
they manufacture state-abiding terrorists.

If any soldier ever wakes up to peace,
they're instantly discharged without honor.
Thinking soldiers are no use to state,
States only want brainless suicide bombers.

Enemy of war is enemy of the state,
Making of peace is crime against state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Peace is a crime against state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Question hate, not harmony.
Ban bombs, not books.
Doubt borders, not benevolence.
Chain the worms, not wombs.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Beyond Borders and Dogma
(Sonnet 1590)

Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
takes a human to home the world.
Leeches obsess over guns and badges,
takes a human to deck the halls.

Beyond borders and dogma,
beyond division and doctrine,
beyond malignant maleficence,
everyone is my kith and kin.

Any ape can boast about their culture,
I'll die roaring for every culture
on earth, except my own.
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
I stand guard till all are one.

Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Soldiers are just government approved terrorists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Charity begins at home,
War begins at home.
Denounce all patriot pills,
for peace begins at home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Ban bombs, not books.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets