Humanitarianism Quotes

“There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
― Mike Norton

“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.”
― Jerry DeWitt, Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism

“As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had been going on since the end of the Second World War, which was surely “World War Three.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos

“Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”
― Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Sometimes, a war saves people.”
― Jose Ramos-Horta, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But...I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.”
― Agnes Kamara-umunna, And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation

“Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world. And tomorrow there will be a hundred more stupid like me, for this stupidity for changing the world can never accept any excuse for inaction, even if that excuse happens to be a most rational reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“Rise my Lions,
Be Heroes of Earth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“And when all humanity has agreed on the necessity for something, we may be perfectly certain that some sort of humanitarian will want to destroy it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Selected Essays

“Run for service, not office.
Chase change, not campaign victory.
If you can't change the world without office,
you definitely can't change it in office.

Who am I? I am Abhijit Naskar, EAS -
Earth Administrative Servant the First.
Who's next - who is thunderful enough,
to shoulder the world as living Atlas!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Who am I? I am Abhijit Naskar, EAS -
Earth Administrative Servant the First.
Who's next - who is thunderful enough,
to shoulder the world as living Atlas!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Once you wake up to the vastness of the world, it is impossible to revert to the tribal lane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“What I have written in ten years, will last for over 10,000 years.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Truth is not the journey from one veil to another. Truth involves peeling the veil one layer after another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Some dreams are too big for a town,
Some dreams are too big for a city.
My dream was too big for one country,
So I stood up and engulfed humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“World's light comes from your light,
It comes from the sacrifice of the few.
If these few ever became selfish,
Whole world would drown in dwindling dew.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world. Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.

My life is a repository
of what is possible if you put
your petty tribalisms aside.
I leave this repository
in your capable hands -
draw from it as you will -
put it to use as you deem fit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I'm Here to Destroy You
(Sonnet of Naskars)

I'm not here to comfort you,
I'm here to make you restless.
I'm not here to enlighten you,
I'm here to destroy you peaceless.

When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
The duties of Naskar are too heavy
for self-coddling cowards to carry.

That's why, I'm here to destroy you,
your last ounce of self care and peace.
Doing what you need to sustain yourself is
one thing, but to obsess over it is cowardice.

I got no business with such cowardly insects,
who try to hide pettiness with perfectionism.
Give me ten messy vessels restless for purpose,
I shall give the world 10,000 years of ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“I got no business with such cowardly insects, who try to hide pettiness with perfectionism. Give me ten messy vessels restless for purpose, I shall give the world 10,000 years of ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“World is made in your image.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“My entire universe of work is a clarion call for acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“The mission, I repeat, is to build a one world family, not one world government. Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism selected randomly on the basis of charisma and popularity by hysterical whim.

The mission, I repeat, is to build a one world family, not one world government. Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“North, South, East, West,
Abandon all primitive divide.
Your culture is my culture,
Together alone shall we thrive!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Till the very word “government” is nowhere to be found but in books on ancient tribal rituals, keep on struggling, O Sapiens Impossible!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth