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

“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism selected randomly on the basis of charisma and popularity by hysterical whim.

The mission, I repeat, is to build a one world family, not one world government. Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“North, South, East, West,
Abandon all primitive divide.
Your culture is my culture,
Together alone shall we thrive!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Naskar, The Journey
(Sonnet 1540)

The journey began with Art of Neuroscience,
I was the rookie scholar in the block.
Amateurish intellectualism was quite evident,
till my voice took charge in the 11th work.

Finally yours truly was speaking on his own,
without leaning on those who came before.
Riding on a whim, along came sonnets,
Prose and poetry fused in Naskarean ore.

Thus original Naskar started pouring out, as
Hurricane Human, Hometown Human 'n more,
Martyr Meets World to Mücadele Muhabbet,
all as bedrock of assimilation galore.

The journey that began with science,
soon turned into a humanitarian tsunami.
Rooted in love, tempered by reason -
I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Rooted in love, tempered by reason - I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“The journey that began with science,
soon turned into a humanitarian tsunami.
Rooted in love, tempered by reason -
I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“My divinity is not rooted
in god or scripture,
my divinity is rooted
in human welfare.

My science is not rooted
in cold logic venture,
my science is rooted
in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Apes cannot cancel the Everest
(Sonnet 1550)

Unleash yourself as love testament,
Be the answer to archaic derangement.
Stand undaunted despite cancelment,
Apes cannot cancel Mount Everest.

Unleash your spine,
Unfurl your fervor.
Awake to humankind,
your eternal harbor.

Anchor yourself in rights,
Rituals can take a back seat.
Rights decreed by jungle rituals,
are no parameters of civil spirit.

Either you succumb to the world,
or expand so vast that
the world succumbs to you.
Dare past time with your dream defiant,
fabric of reality will unfold through you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Unleash your spine,
Unfurl your fervor.
Awake to humankind,
your eternal harbor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Better a refugee than prisoner
(Sonnet 1555)

Eon upon eon I seek for a refuge,
Land upon land I receive but coldness.
Last I stand at your door exhausted,
Spare some warmth, for my heart freezes!

Stateless, cultless, I walk the planet.
Restless, sleepless, I live a dream.
Friendless, loveless, I brave the mission.
The being is dissolved for the beacon to beam.

Wield, I do, my conscience as compass.
Wear, I do, my backbone as battery.
Bouts of tragedy only amplifies my thunder,
Nature's bare mockery makes miracle of me.

Borders are for hoarders, my home is the world.
Better a refugee to the sea than prisoner of the pond.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“It's an immediate humanitarianism, without aims or conclusions, that overwhelms me right now. I feel a tenderness as if I were seeing with the eyes of a god. I see everyone as if moved by the compassion of the world's only conscious being. Poor hapless men, poor hapless humanity! What are they all doing here?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I am justice to the activists,
Common sense to the scientists,
I'm illumination to philosophers,
I am existence to existentialists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Rise my lions, roar my lions!
Prayers are flooding in -
who'll bring reliance!”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I'm a reformer, not influencer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Monkeys come in all shapes and sizes,
Many are white, while others are colored.
Nationalism doesn't infect any one tribe,
it's a jungle virus that affects the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Life Love Liberty, Sonnet 1548
(Hayat Habib Huriyat)

My divinity is not rooted
in god or scripture,
my divinity is rooted
in human welfare.

My science is not rooted
in cold logic venture,
my science is rooted
in human welfare.

My philosophy is not rooted
in intellectual gymnastics,
my philosophy is rooted
in uprooting prejudice.

My Life is rooted in Love and Liberty.
Hayat Habib Huriyat, that's my identity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Matters not if I die today,
My legacy will guard all tomorrow.
No matter if one Naskar is perished,
Thousands will rise to be world's marrow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Show me a spark of social responsibility, I shall turn it into humanitarian wildfire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Humanitarian Wildfire (The Sonnet)

Naskareans can come from any field of life,
many are nerds, some athletes, others artists.
All united by a common humanitarian vision,
all standing unbent for humane advancement.

I've even left some modest material of fiction,
for the naskarean filmmakers of the future.
Then there is the fathomless dimension of sonnets,
add some music and you're a naskarean composer.

I have left behind something for everyone,
no matter your walk of life or taste of heart.
Show me a spark of social responsibility,
I shall turn it into humanitarian wildfire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“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

“I am neither stoic nor romanticist,
I am just the Himalayas on a mission.
Love me, I'll smile - hate me, I'll hug,
Ants got no worth to offend the mountain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee