Global Harmony Quotes

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

“It's impossible to control people when they no longer fear each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“You know, which nation has the nicest people? You cannot guess in a million years. The nation with the nicest people is, Earth, for no nation has exclusive franchise over niceness - goodness is a human quality, not a national one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“You know, which nation has the nicest people? You cannot guess in a million years. The nation with the nicest people is, Earth, for no nation has exclusive franchise over niceness - goodness is a human quality, not a national one. Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one. Sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian. Culture is an act of expansion, not exclusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“The First Supper (Sonnet)

It ends with me,
toxic masculinity ends with me,
religious intolerance ends with me -

superstition 'n conspiracy ends with me,
prejudice and puritanism ends with me -
jungle nationalism ends with me,
animal fundamentalism ends with me -

buying into a sheepish
sinner mindset ends with me,
breaking out into a predatory
wolf mindset ends with me -

segregated spaces, both outside
and inside, end with me -
we live under one sky,
we breathe the same air,
it's time we join each other
for the first supper.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I cherish every human who shows even the slightest trace of inclusivity, as strongly as I feel resigned towards any ape that thrives on prejudice disguised as piety.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Segregated spaces, inside and out, end with me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Neighbor Before Nation (Sonnet 2201)

Death of soldiers is PR goldmine for
nationalist nutters, no matter the side,
because it gives them the appetizing
ammunition to sell some more fear,

some more prejudice,
some more fanatic tribalism,
neighbor fighting neighbor,
all wrapped in cute pills of patriotism -

which ultimately manufactures
some more orphans, some more widows,
some more elderly who lose their hope.

Trenches don't have a right side and wrong side,
they only have one side, the side of dogma and lies.
Asses to asses, cheek to cheek, apes laud the apes,
declaring true apehood through their half-open flies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Tolerance is not a faculty, tolerance is consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“The Man With No Roots (Sonnet)

The day children are raised
without religion and nationality,
that's the beginning of peacemaking,
and the empirical end to warmongery.

Either raise your children with
no religion or multiple religions,
either raise your children with
no culture or multiple cultures.

I grew up celebrating Diwali,
eating fruitcake on the 25th,
and waking up to the call of Azaan -
if I'm devout anything, it's a devout human.

I have no roots, for I am the roots;
I am the ruin of all heritage of lies.
Illegal Immigrant in every state,
for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“The day children are raised without religion and nationality, that's the beginning of peacemaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Nationality is a right, nationalism is not. Religion is a right, fundamentalism is not.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Stereotypes are sanity of the jungle,
prejudice is sacred in the animal kingdom.
Flags are the poison, cosmos is (my) kin -
I am no stereotype, I am the Prototype Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Cosmos is kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“We weep in different tongues,
but the salt is the same.
We smile in different colors,
but the gleam is the same.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When you are empty enough to hold others, you become whole for the first time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In English we say: blood is thicker than water. In Naskarian we say: humanity is thicker than blood and border.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: the grass is greener on the other side. In Naskarian we say: Earth is greener when it belongs to all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: no man is an island. In Naskarian we say: Earth is an island, our only shelter is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Earth is an island, our only shelter is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Divine has no religion, nature has no nationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Ek Insan, Hoonkar-e Asmaan,
Khalsa in Veins, Noor-e Nadaan;
no togetherness, no tomorrow -
Awake, Arise, O Christly Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Why (Sonnet 2493)

Why is it that, for one religion to be true,
all other religions have to be false!
Why is it that, for one culture to find glory,
all other cultures have to be dehumanized!

Why is it that, for one people to prosper,
another people have to be exploited!
Why is it that, to conceive a brave new nation,
the landmass has to be sterilized of the natives!

Why is it that, for one nation to be strong,
all other citizens have to be tagged as enemy!
Why is it that, for one kind of love to flourish,
love's myriad spectrum gets banished to the closet!

Why is it that, for one community to flourish,
rest of humankind must be choked against the wall!
Why is it that, for the state to come into power,
the citizens must be brainwashed into vegetable!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Pluralism is not a polite idealism, pluralism is civilizational emergency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“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

“In a paradigm of hate,
be the paradox of love -
glue to the galaxy,
epoxy of the epoch.”
― 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