World Is Family Quotes

“If I had a child, I wouldn't teach them a single thing about the culture I was raised in - instead I'll hand over all the cultures I've assimilated throughout my life, so that one day they may grow up to be a whole human being, rather than a puny fragmented ape - so that they may become a large person in a small planet, rather than a small primate in a large world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Borders are for hoarders, my home is the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Beyond Borders and Dogma
(Sonnet 1590)

Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
takes a human to home the world.
Leeches obsess over guns and badges,
takes a human to deck the halls.

Beyond borders and dogma,
beyond division and doctrine,
beyond malignant maleficence,
everyone is my kith and kin.

Any ape can boast about their culture,
I'll die roaring for every culture
on earth, except my own.
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
I stand guard till all are one.

Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Better a traitor to the border
than a traitor to humanity,
better an enemy of the state
than enemy of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Right time waits for the right human,
Civilized world awaits a civilized human.
When the last barbwire is banned from life,
Passports become buspass and apes become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Everywhere is home, everyone is family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“That Day I'll Call You Human (Sonnet)

I shall call you all human,
the day you bring down all borders,
like you brought down the Berlin wall.

I shall call you all human,
the day you abolish all military,
like you abolished the SS.

I shall call you all human,
the day you eradicate fundamentalism,
like you eradicated polio.

I shall call you all human,
the day you ban the oligarchs,
like you tackled corona.

If you can't be a tsunami, be a flash flood -
if you can't be a flash flood, be a garden hose,
and wash away the inhumanities around you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Never believe that humanity is in decline, or that the world has lost its grace. Instead, remind yourself: ‘The world is beautiful, and I am doing my part to make it even more beautiful.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Every border I crossed blurred another line inside me — between who I was, and who I was becoming.”
― Yoon Jeong Kim, The South Korean Diplomat's Wife: Stories of Silk Dresses, Scandals, and Secrets

“My territory is planet earth - humanity, my civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“The culture I carry is integration, the tradition I carry is tolerance, the religion I carry is reformation - armed with a hundred billion nerve cells, here I stand Human, My Nation, Earthistan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“You cannot make sense of my titles, bleating like nationalist livestock.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Human is a pious promise,
not host to parasitic paranoia.
Earth is my homerock, sky is my robe -
End of tribe is birth of culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“The Humanity Festival
(Interfaith Anthem, 2598-2599)

Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Beyond the void of us and them,
join the circle, break the chains.

Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.

Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.

Mercy is no mercy that's reserved for a few,
mercy is the light we carry in all we do.
The spirit of godliness that we hold inside,
is meant to light the world, far and wide.

Fasting and feasting turn to futile noise,
if life drifts from life, trampling human joys.
Candles and fireworks become childish pranks,
if underneath them all the kernel is blank.

Kindness in our soul, courage in our skin -
every person is my people, every stranger is kin.
Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments,
love is my homeland, heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments,
love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Don't need flags in the sky, we're the colors when we try.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“No God above the human,
no border in the mind -
tolerance is our anthem,
we are the humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Voyage of Naskar (Sonnet 2805)

If you ask me what religion am I,
I'll ask you what jungle are you from!

If you ask me what is my nationality,
I'll ask you what is your malady!

If you ask me which ideology I follow,
you tell me, which bedlam did you escape from!

No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you ask me what religion am I,
I'll ask you what jungle are you from!
If you ask me what is my nationality,
I'll ask you what is your malady!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Citizenships there are hundreds, nationality there is but one - humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Breeze when shared becomes breath.
Water when shared becomes spirit.
Dream when shared becomes life.
Earth when shared becomes paradise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don't want patriots that hang from flagpoles, and salute with backbone dangling from their derriere, I want patriots who wear their heart on their chest, carry their backbone as battery, and their brain as gear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Humanity Festival (Song)

[Intro]
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.
Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.

[Verse 1]
Festivals are not dates on a calendar,
cultures are not places on a map.
No festival is sin for no one,
there is no culture where we do not belong.

Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the opposite of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.

[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

[Verse 2]
To be is not to be,
life begins beyond the fate.
I am here, I am early,
even if you arrive late.

No telepathy, no clairvoyance,
human presence is the miracle.
No mind reading, no brainwashing,
eagerness unlocks the oracle.

The question is the answer,
the urgency is the calm.
Clocks measure coins, not time;
my bruises are my balm.

[Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars with rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

[Verse 3]
I am beyond your backward singularities,
larger than language models and libraries,
just a conduit made of stardust,
I'm empathy circuits written in verse.

Look up from your gypsy tea cups,
outside your make believe star charts,
shake off the spell of algorithms,
reality speaks through human tears.

Love is not the absence of pain,
but the willingness to face it.
I'm every story ever suppressed,
every wound that never got stitched.

Justice is not law or doctrine,
justice breathes in you and me,
in our sweat, in our compassion,
in our stubborn will to be free.

[Final Chorus]
When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.

Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments.
Love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.

[Outro]
Kindness in our soul,
courage in our skin -
every person is my people,
every stranger is kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Earthistana Song

[Verse 1]
I was born without a lineage,
without a holy claim;
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.

But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.

World was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear,
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.

So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality;
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.

[Pre-Chorus]
Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart;
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.

[Verse 2]
I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride;
I've seen nations crowned with glory,
yet cruelty inside.

But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.

We carry the dawn,
now let the darkness retire;
we're the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition brain fiber.

Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you,
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.

[Pre-Chorus]
Lift the fallen beside you,
heal the fractures of fate;
every act of kindness
makes tyranny evaporate.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.

[Bridge]
From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,

when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred;
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.

[Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
oneness in our vein;
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.

[Final Chorus]
Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne;
Earthistana rising,
the world is our home.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind;
tolerance is our anthem,
the name is humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Every war is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“In the military there is a phrase called "friendly fire", which is when a soldier accidentally shoots their own side, but once you're civilized enough to see the world as one country, you'd realize, like a human being should, that every bullet fired at another person is friendly fire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes