Service Of Humanity Quotes

“In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“I don't write for popularity, I write for posterity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Every human who loves a human is apostle,
Every human who helps a human is king.
Animals may feast on selfish luxury,
As for me, I am a citizen king.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“God is your motivation! Okay.
Science is your motivation! Okay.
What do you do with that,
how do you lift the world!
What's your gift to the life most lay!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Spreading scripture is not faithwork,
Mumbling facts is not sciencework.
True faith is kindness,
True science is service.
It takes a human to do lifework!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Breath sacrificed is first breath of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Heart is my gospel,
brain is my constitution.
Backbone is my law,
service is my salvation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Kral Fakir (Servant King Sonnet)

İnsanı seven herkes resul,
Yardım eden herkes kraldır.
Bencil servet hayvanlara mübarek,
İnsan ben, kimliğim kral fakir.

Every human who loves a human is apostle,
Every human who helps a human is king.
Animals may feast on selfish luxury,
As for me, I am a servant king.

King is the servant,
Servant is king.
Being is the harvest,
Harvest is the being.

Life lived for self is goods,
Life lived for others is gift.
Time spent on self is product,
Time spent on others is present.

You can spend thousands on the shallow,
Still it won't be enough to fill their eyes.
Spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It'll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“You can spend thousands on the shallow,
Still it won't be enough to fill their eyes.
Spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It'll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Life lived for self is goods,
Life lived for others is gift.
Time spent on self is product,
Time spent on others is present.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Call me gypsy, or call me refugee,
This heart of mine is always migrant.
I've got no use for silicon or gold,
World is my bane, world, my ointment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“No theories, no philosophies, no ceremonies, all that the world needs is your unbound determination and unbending dignity in the course of assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“A thousand church visits won't make you holy, if you remain indifferent to the agonies of the people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“The more you give life,
The more you'll have life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Turning water into wine is no miracle,
It just means you are high on something.
Real miracle is to share your last drop,
With someone who is suffering.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“I own just two 5 dollar tshirts - one is my regular wear, another my backup for washdays. And for my travels I own two 10 dollar shirts and two 20 dollar jeans, which are also used for my book covers. I don't need more, I don't buy more. This is not minimalism, it's called self-regulation - the lack of which has led to the shallow, judgmental, privilege-craving prick of a society we live in today. It's not about saving money, it's about humanizing money, by using it wisely, not just for individual benefit, but collective benefit.

Buy the things you need the most, save a little for rainy days, and use the rest to lift up the fallen. Any citizen who masters this simple humanitarian habit, is no longer obligated to pay taxes to the government. And when enough citizens of the world make it the mantra of their life, not just to lift themselves, but each other, the governments of the world are automatically rendered obsolete.

Government is funded by the people - then the governments use those funds to manufacture war, in order to further sustain the democratic cashflow that keeps them in business. Therefore, when people pull their funds and redirect them themselves, towards actual, tangible, humanitarian initiatives, there isn't going to be a government. It's only the humanitarian indifference of the citizens that keeps governments alive, that in turn keep borders and wars alive. Once the citizens are actually, genuinely, nontheoretically accountable of the welfare of society, beyond the prehistoric paradigm peddled by the state, all Capitol, Kremlin and White Hall will crumble to dust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Give Me A Keyboard,
I'll Give You Revolution
(The Sonnet)

I just want to write -
that's all I ever want -
to write, write and write!
The day the words stop coming,
will be my last corporeal night.

Either I shall die by an assassin's bullet,
or I shall die on my keyboard,
but I refuse to die of old-age and disease.
Death scares those who are scared of life,
I have already lived my life in service.

I live on keyboard, I'll die on keyboard,
Keyboard is my instrument of illumination.
Nothing short could satisfy my palate -
Give me a keyboard, I'll give you revolution.

With my keyboard I've defended the meek,
With my keyboard I've castrated the pricks.
With my keyboard I've brought down dictators,
With my keyboard I've schooled bigoted pigs.

With my keyboard I've raised Gods by hundreds,
With my keyboard I've delivered world-builders.
With my keyboard I've produced hatebusters,
With my keyboard I've raised bulldozers.

Death is but a myth - body dies, not bulldozer;
Body is merely a vessel for the mission.
If you want your ideas to live forever,
You gotta sacrifice your life for a vision.

I never lived as body, but only as a dream -
My life is testament to the dream of united earth.
I don't have a message, for I am the message -
Sacrifice is beacon, that illuminates the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“The world is evolutionarily programmed
to facilitate either cowardice or cruelty,
Yet you got all the potential in your cells
to be the brave mutation of magnanimity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Be a swan amidst swine,
Be water amidst wine.
When all be walking veggies,
Unleash your upright spine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“One day my memories will fade, but the world's memory of me will never fade - that's how I've lived my life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“I'm Impossible (Sonnet 1272)

I don't need to play word games,
to say, impossible means I am possible;
my existence is epitome of the impossible.
I don't make plans, I make purpose,
then the purpose plans me, into unstoppable.

Does that mean, loneliness doesn't bother me,
Of course it does - it makes the torture worse.
Anybody who says, they enjoy loneliness,
is either lying or plain narcissistic retard.

But then again, just when I feel super gloomy,
I remember my responsibility to my world family.
Time and again, my purpose drags me out,
Electrifying my veins with incorruptible duty.

¡Viva la humanidad, viva la familia mundial!
Long live humanity, long live world family!
Whenever you are down, take refuge in purpose;
Your purpose will reawaken your invincibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat
(Pani, Agua, Water Sonnet)

In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.

Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.

Yet I can tell you who I am,
I don't need a million lines but one.
Iman insaniyat, mazhab muhabbat*;
Pani, agua, water, it's all one.

Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.

(*faith humanity, religion love)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“When one Naskar dies in body,
Thousand Naskars will take his place.
Naskar the person died a long time ago,
What speaks to you is Naskar the oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“I don't care if my blood courses through your veins, I only care whether my ideas electrify your nerves. I don't give a damn if I leave no bloodly offspring, my sole objective is to leave behind godly bravehearts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“They ask me,
why do you speak for so many cultures,
when you are not born in those cultures?
So I asked the sun,
why do you share your light with earth,
when you are not born of earth?

The sun told me,
o ye of little mind, don't you know,
light is not mine to give!
Light is the intrinsic right of life,
I am merely accessory to the motive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“You can spend thousands of dollars on the shallow,
Still it won't be enough to light up their eyes.
But spend a single wise cent on someone in need,
It'll fill their heart with new vigor of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“When Calls A Promise:

I made a promise to someone that I would protect humankind with my life - that I would let no savagery, no prejudice, no sectarianism tear my people apart - that I would spend every breath of my life in uniting my people - the people of earth. And my very existence is the living manifestation of that promise.

Don't make promises that you know not whether you will be able to keep, but once you do make a promise, keep it at all cost, even at the cost of your life, which is exactly the kind of promise I made - to give my life in the unification of humankind.

Initially I thought I would achieve that by erasing the religious barriers amongst people. Hence, in the beginning I wrote ceaselessly on religion, but as I kept studying the tenets of the society, I came to realize that the barriers amongst people have invaded every aspect of life and society, much beyond the mere traditional bounds of religion - they have invaded the very lifeblood of society and have been tearing the society apart from inside out.

I came to realize that the religion of the future is not going to be christianity, islam, judaism or any such traditional system, rather, the religion of the future is going to be social justice. And the best way to shape the future is to envision it early on and start manufacturing it today. Thus, though initially the primary premise of my work was religion, eventually it acquired much wider and diverse societal roots.

My purpose remains the same, that is, to unite you all, to unite my seven billion sisters and brothers of earth, but I had to make a few changes to my approach based on the need of the time as I kept evolving with my work. I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.

Society needed not yet another scientist, it needed a reformer scientist, so I became one. All my life my need has been to serve the need of the society - need mark you, not desire. There is a difference between what the society desires and what it really needs. Society may desire for more bigotry, more segregation, more rigidity, more separatism, but that's not what the society needs - a civilized society needs humility, not bigotry - it needs inclusion, not segregation - it needs reason, not rigidity - it needs assimilation, not separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“If you can give your hand to some, it doesn’t matter whether you are handsome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Either you'll know me as a national hero of every nation, or you won't know me at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Either you'll know me as a national hero
of every nation, or you won't know me at all.
So long as a single human calls me foreigner,
I'll conclude, I've achieved nothing at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets