Service Of Humanity Quotes

“Favoritism is Good (The Sonnet)

My favorite language in the world is Turkish,
Because its culture electrifies my scars.
My favorite language in the East is Telugu,
Because its music emboldens my nerves.

My favorite language in the West is Spanish,
Because it teaches me the worth of freedom.
Favorite ancient tongues are Arabic 'n Sanskrit,
For one embodies peace, another assimilation.

My favorite science of all is electronics,
For it empowers my imagination untainted.
My favorite philosophy is everyday curiosity,
It helps me transcend all sectarian intellect.

My favorite religion in the world is service,
Because it transforms an animal into human.
I don't care what you believe or don't,
As long as your behavior speaks compassion.

Favoritism is a civilized faculty,
when practiced beyond blood and border.
Problem is when you see nothing at all,
beyond the rim of your family and culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“My Christian faith has always put a central role of my life and it’s supplies answers to those questions: “who do you think sent the boat?” Answer: God sent the boat. “ what does he expect me to do now?” Answer: now that I am safely ashore, he expects me to send the boat back for someone else.”
― Vinh Chung, Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

“Science is service - if you don't get this, you are not a scientist, but a glorified con-artist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Science is service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 56

Seni seviyorum be insan!
It's okay if you don't get a word I say.
You won't remember the words anyway,
It's the sentiment that makes the way.

There is a bridge from my heart to yours,
But you won't fathom it with all the words.
Oneness is a bridge revealed in silence,
Can you hear the pitter-patter of teardrops!

If you can't hear the teardrops of a warzone,
All your philosophies are basically useless.
If we can't light up the forgotten corners,
What's the point in discovering photoelectric effect!

What's the point of all these fancy words and doohickeys,
If human emotion sinks to the bottom of our priorities!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“There is a bridge from my heart to yours,
But you won't fathom it with all the words.
Oneness is a bridge revealed in silence,
Can you hear the pitter-patter of teardrops!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Sapiens is the dawn,
Sapiens is the saint.
Sapiens is the bridge of heart,
Sapiens is the mend.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Be the paradigm-breaking anomaly,
That elevates all of humankind.
Be the epoch-shattering anchor,
That tethers time to light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Awake, arise and shoulder the world -
To live life is to answer duty's call.
Duty is the better name of existence -
Dutybound we rise, dutyfree we fall.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“I don't know about Mars and Moon,
On my planet I am brakeless loon.
Exploiting dreams and hope,
when chimpanzees elope,
I stand grounded as an unbent boon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“It's a new world we gotta build - founded on love, tempered by reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Space may be the final frontier,
But heart is the first frontier.
Unless we first conquer the heart,
We'll turn the cosmos into dumpyard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“before treating a wound, first it's flushed with alcohol to clean the germs. Likewise, to heal this wounded world first we gotta flush the germs of prejudice and discrimination with reason and conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Ominous though the night bring fright,
Disastrous though the day might strike.
Hand on chest, with spine unbent,
Reformer walks as ray of right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“When brain stops,
When heart stops,
What is left of you?

When eyes fail,
When memory fails,
What is left of you?

When your last molecule
has merged with nature,
What is left of you?

That's what you've really achieved -
Testament to the fact that,
there ever was a you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Sight up - might up - light up!
Denounce the shore and sail the sea!
Draw electricity from your spinal cord,
One brain can make or break society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Lifetime isn't measured in time,
Lifetime is measured in kind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Simple, Sonnet

Serenity is born of simplicity,
Insecurity is born of clutter.
Patience empowers perseverance,
Selfishness brings down disaster.

But what's a life without difficulty,
Difficulty delivers durability.
Don't be ashamed of darkness in life,
It's in darkness we shine most brightly.

There's nothing shameful about fear,
It's a problem when the reason is baseless.
Trouble of privilege is trouble of lies,
Reject all privilege and rush to the helpless.

It is human nature to shed tears when in agony,
Taking pain to wipe another's tears is humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Only cure for chronic cruelty is chronic kindness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Brain's death is death of the body,
Heart's death is death of the being.
Kindness keeps the being alive
long after the heart stops beating.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“All the books are useless,
if they don't elevate the heart.
Then again, books don't elevate the heart,
it's the heart that,
with some aid from books,
elevates the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Knowledge without heart disconnects the soul from society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Prayerism is self-preservation, activism is world-preservation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Animal we fall, human we fly.
All else save humanity,
is a glorified lie.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 1

My science is you, my art is you,
La mañana de mi mente eres tú.
Mi casa tú, mi cielo tú,
La verdad de mi vida eres tú.

People are the truth of life,
Not some beliefs and biases.
People are the magic of my words,
People are the center of my poetries.

People are the beginning,
People are the end.
People are the meaning,
People are the mend.

We lift ourselves when we lift up the people.
When we're each other's rock, we are unstoppable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Heaven is a people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Our health, our intellect, our resources - if all these only benefit us and do nothing for the people around us, then what's the point of it all!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Civilization is not a destination,
Civilization is the journey.
Heaven is a people, not a place,
An exercise in attachment, not apathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Struggle in the streets,
struggle in the beaches,
only then you shall know,
what suits the humans,
what suits the leeches.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Only love can bring full freedom, all else brings half freedom. What is half freedom you ask? When in the name of freedom you imprison yourself to one side or sect, everything outside that sect seems evil. For example, fundamentalists choose the side of blind faith, and every act of reason seems like blasphemy - just like cold, sharp-tongue intellectuals choose the side of rationality even at the expense of humanity, and everything illogical seems outdated - or wait, I got a better one - so-called social activists often get so attached to their self-imposed identity of victimhood, that every person with a political, corporate, legal or bureaucratic background seems to appear as devil incarnate. This, my friend, is what I call "half freedom", which by the way, is far worse than the lack of freedom. And even though it manifests as an act of willful choice, when you get down to it, it's just plain old rigidity. And if we want to build a truly just, inclusive and progressive society, this hypocritical half-freedom won't do - what's needed is whole freedom - a kind of freedom that liberates the mind of all superstition as well as ignorant suspiciousness. It's time we realize, yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet. What this means is that, we gotta come together regardless of our background - the teacher, the scientist, the student, the copper, the politician, the civil servant, the entrepreneur, the economist, the janitor, the construction worker - every single person from every single walk of life must come forward surpassing all suspicious conspiracy, and contribute the best of their capacity in the making of a real civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect