Global Crisis Quotes

“Mad Wind (The Sonnet)

Turn into a mad wind,
And blow away the rigidity.
Now the savagery must end,
To do that we must rise as almighty.
Turn into the monsoon rain,
And wash away all sickness.
Whenever a crisis arrives,
We must step up shredding all weakness.
Turn into a purifying wave,
And smoothen the thorns of argument.
Whenever rises differentiation,
We must become the bridge without bent.
The world is unstable and feeble with insecurity.
We must be its strength offering our soul as stability.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“The holy trinity of tackling a crisis is unity, faith and sacrifice. We must stay united as humans above all else, we must have faith in ourselves and in each other and we must sacrifice our self-obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“The world is my home and it’s under my protection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“The only way to be truly happy is to be the gateway to somebody's happiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“I, Corona Speaking (The Sonnet)

Nature has been crying,
Yet you paid no heed.
Glaciers have been frying,
Yet you kept sleeping in greed.
Forests kept on burning,
Yet your eyes shed no tear.
Hurricanes kept on brewing,
Yet your luxuries didn't disappear.
Hence my arrival, not to punish you,
But only to give a wake up call.
I haven't come to lock you up,
But only to expose your downfall.
Now you know the horrors you committed,
I plea o wise ones live life illuminated.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“In every darkness there is possibility of light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable

“HUMAN is the Only Threat to the Universe - & sorry to say, but even Creator Exist, S/he is crying for the mistake of making this creature - Tanveer [Hossain Mullick] unfortunately one the species.”
― Tanveer Hossain Mullick

“We have plenty of warners (though the wind blows away our words), but we could do with more arks.”
― H.M. Forester

“What's the point of having blood in your veins, if it doesn't boil at the sight of injustice - what's the point of having electricity in your nerves if it doesn't spark at the sight of misery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“I give a call to the billionaires today who really want to help people - start by demolishing the salary disparity in your own company and distribute your own salary as well as those of your highest earning employees among all your employees so that the salaries of everybody in your company, starting from the janitor to yourself are the same. And use at least half your company's profit to solve societal issues. Remember, being the richest person on earth won't make you happy, easing the difficulties of others will.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Without togetherness, there is no species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“The world is my home, it’s my hood, and it’s under my protection. So before any bigot or segregationist tries to poison it with barbarian fantasies, they'll have to go through me first. Either I'll turn every inhumanity into ashes or I'll become ashes myself while trying.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Arise my titans and fill the sky with your vigor infinite, pour the seas with your conscience upright, and envelop the lands with your sentience burning bright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“If you want your life to mean something, don't ask how much you have, ask how much you can give.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Adopt a neighborhood, make the problems of that neighborhood your own problems and be the solution yourself, and eventually all catastrophe will turn powerless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Servitude is sanctitude, selfishness is destitute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“The Maker (Sonnet)

Step by step we'll reach the mountaintop,
We'll build roads penetrating impediments.
Bit by bit we'll trash our conformities,
We’ll erect civilization upon reason and sentiments.
Day and night we'll stand tall in service,
Through storm, rain, heat and gloom.
There's no time for selfishness,
Being selfish would bring universal doom.
Sanity is in giving and caring,
It’s in every act of collective concern.
Because if you care only for the self,
Deserting your children your neighbors will run.
The world is our home and we must be its caretaker.
Comfort is luxury, it’s time we rise as the maker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Arise my titans and fill the sky with your vigor infinite.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility

“Watch Her Beauty Fade and Fall Into A Life Of Solitude.”
― Cinnamon Worth, The Duke and the Damsel

“Every year we become more insular and more inward-focused, at once connected to an amazing virtual global multiplicity yet often detached from the world in any physical, emotional and moral sense. Every decision, from buying food to switching on a light, is mediated by so many logistical, institutional and technological layers that we have no sense of what our actions are responsible for. Our profound alienation from the earth continues.”
― Rob Cowen, Common Ground

“The only people who can end Putin's reign of terror for good, are not the governments of the world, but the citizens of the world. Sisters and brothers of planet earth, if you stay silent now, the blood of countless innocents will be on your hands. Awake, arise, and treat the Putin pandemic, like you treated the Covid pandemic.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The world has a ridiculously short attention span. It cannot stick to any one cause for more than a few days. They forgot about Palestine, they forgot about Afghanistan, they forgot about Jallianwala Bagh, and they’ll soon forget about Ukraine as well. The world forgets, but the suffering of the people continues.

Don't be that world my friend, be a better world, a civilized and responsible world, only then we'll be able to prevent another Palestine crisis, another Afghanistan crisis, another Ukraine crisis, otherwise these events will keep recurring until everybody is six feet under.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“When the tyrant slaps you once, slap them back twice, like a concerned parent, and say, no more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“When your family is in danger, you don't ponder, should I intervene - you just jump - that's what love does to a person. Only such love will save the world, not law. When the civilians of the world feel such love for the world as they feel for their family, the world leaders will have nothing left to do but direct traffic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Why do people have to die for us to open our eyes! If we still fail to heed reason, nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The whole world is affected by the earth’s rising temperature. We’re raising it further.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“International responses to refugee crises cannot get by on being well-intentioned: they need to be smart, too.”
― Alexander Betts, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

“We are living through an extraordinary era and face massive upheaval and grave existential threats that are affecting our lives as individuals, in social and work groups, in societies, and increasingly on a global – dare I say even a cosmic – scale.

We are caught in turbulent and traumatic times as we transition between the death of the old world order and the uncharted territory of rebirth into something new. Something unknown, uncertain, frightening or even threatening to many of us. [From Preface]”
― H.M. Forester, Secret Friends: The Ramblings of a Madman in Search of a Soul

“[N]othing short of super-extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure that we make it through this interregnum and ensure our survival and that of the natural world we inhabit. [From Preface]”
― H.M. Forester, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance

“The forces of Zion seek to hastily discard democratic practices in favor of inducing widespread anarchy, exploiting despondency, and dismantling societal structures to assert unbridled authority and control.”
― Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas