Humanist Quotes

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us. Yet if she is sick, it is because mankind is sick and separated. And if our vibrations are bad, she reacts to it, as do all living creatures.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Character of a scientist does not depend on science, but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Anybody can inspire the youth to become scientists, any trustfund white guy or even chatgpt can do that, the point of Naskar is to ignite Servant Scientists, because if a scientist does not burn with the fire of service, they are no better than religious fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Don’t harm either fanatics (militant atheists and religious fanatics), don’t cuss them, just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell them apart – because militant rationalism often ends up violating human welfare, just as religious fanaticism does, except it does so under the banner of ivory logic, or to be specific, white eurocentric logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I'm not interested in the path you walk, I'm only interested in how you behave along the way.”
― 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

“Brain is my engine,
heart is my compass,
backbone is my battery,
character is my garment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Circuits to Break (Sonnet 2940)

Asked a beggar, what is happiness?
"Piece of bread," he said.
Asked a king, what is happiness?
"More territory," he said.

Asked a fanatic, what is happiness?
"More converts," he said.
Asked a scientist, what is happiness?
"More prestige," they said.

Asked a politician, what is happiness?
"Another term," they said.
Asked a farmer, what is happiness?
"Abundant rain," they said.

Asked a soldier, what is happiness?
"To see my kid grow up," they said.
So I went and asked in the mirror,
what is happiness?

The mirror cracked with a roar:
you're not a philosopher you idiot,
don't waste life inflating your ego
with elitist armchair analysis
like some overfed aristocratic twit,
you have a planet to unify -
peoples to unite, circuits to break.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science-heavy works are not necessarily truth-heavy works, just like scripture-heavy works are not necessarily divine-heavy works.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a neighbor from a different faith, defended someone's right to worship despite being an atheist yourself, offered a glass of water to someone from a different culture, or sheltered an immigrant family from your nation's fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“We are the test of humanity, we are the proof of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Journey of civilization begins with
one person rejecting an outdated tradition,
if there is not a single Naskar in sight,
be the Naskar of your generation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“One sacrifice inspires a million,
one heart sets a paradigm -
one spark is all it takes,
to restart space and time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Imagine what we could achieve, if medicine abandoned capitalism, science abandoned elitism, theology abandoned superstition, and philosophy abandoned narcissism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Society is the biggest impediment to humanity, because most of what we call society is secondhand.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Doesn't take much to look human, two eyes, two ears, one nose, couple of limbs here and there, and you're done, but to be human that's a different matter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“In a planet of apes it is universally illegal to be a complete human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskaradeniz, Sonnet 2412
(The Planet Dervish)

Where your hope ends,
there my stubbornness begins.
Where gods stay cripple,
there my duty begins.

Where law fails order,
there my justice begins.
Where state fails society,
there my civilizing begins.

Where schools fail truth,
there my curiosity begins.
Where science fails empathy,
there my intervention convenes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Ilim al-Insan (Sonnet 3101-3102)

Truth is the letter,
I am only the postman.

One postman snuffeth,
another cometh -
no message is magnum opus,
no messenger final prophet.

Either burn me, or burn with me,
I want neither sheep nor mice.
Body born of mud dissolves in mud,
one person's sacrifice jolts a planet back to life.

Obedience doesn't civilize
a planet, sacrifice does -

Naskar's work is almost done,
I wonder who's gonna come next -
who's gonna be the Second Naskar,
and the Third, and the Fourth -

I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline,
I'm interested in who'll carry my madness,
my madness for tolerance,
my madness for oneness -

always flawed, but never rigid,
always making mistakes,
but also correcting themselves,
never without blind spots,
but no blind spot worshipped as truth -

tolerant of harmless make believe,
but never of harmful blind belief,
activist of humane reason, not elitist logic.

I wonder, who's gonna be the next postman!
I wonder, who's gonna be the next Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Truth is the letter, I am only the postman. One postman snuffeth, another cometh - no message is magnum opus, no messenger final prophet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline, I'm interested in who'll carry my madness, my madness for tolerance, my madness for oneness - always flawed, but never rigid, always making mistakes, but also correcting themselves, never without blind spots, but no blind spot worshipped as truth - tolerant of harmless make believe, but never of harmful blind belief, activist of humane reason, not elitist logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Either burn me, or burn with me, I want neither sheep nor mice. Body born of mud dissolves in mud, one person's sacrifice jolts a planet back to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Obedience doesn't civilize a planet, sacrifice does - Naskar's work is almost done, I wonder who's gonna come next - who's gonna be the Second Naskar, and the Third, and the Fourth - I'm not interested in who'll carry my bloodline, I'm interested in who'll carry my madness, my madness for tolerance, my madness for oneness - I wonder, who's gonna be the next Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect - spin of my particles unsung by LHC, essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human