Social Reform Quotes

“A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of land preserved in their original state. If asked to discuss the issue at all, many laymen have maintained this much, that parks are bits of nature created only in the sense that some decision was made not to build on the land. Many are surprised to learn that parks that an artifact conceived and deliberated as carefully as public buildings, with both physical shape and social usage taken into account. The second, a little more informed, is that parks are aesthetic objects and that their history can be understood in terms of an evolution of artistic styles independent of societal considerations. The third is the view that each of the elements of the urban park represents part of planners' strategy for moral and social reform, so that today, as in the past, the citizen visiting a park is subject to an accumulated set of intended moral lessons.”
― Galen Cranz, The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America

“Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders

“Acceptance does not mean accepting those who disregard humans on the basis of race, religion and sexual orientation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“You are born to build the society, not to follow it.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism

“Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“এখনকার ভাবুক পুরুষেরা সধবার পাতিব্রত্যে এবং বিধবার ব্রহ্মচর্যে যে কী অপূর্ব কবিত্ব আছে, সে কথা প্রতিদিন সুর চড়িয়ে চড়িয়ে বলছেন। তার থেকে বোঝা যাচ্ছে জীবনের এই জায়গায় কেমন করে সত্যে আর সুন্দরে বিচ্ছেদ হয়ে গেছে।”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“First know the Self and then talk of social reformation.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism