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

“Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Apes have highnesses and excellencies, for apes have compost for a brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When The Dervish Burns
(Naskaristana 2791-2794)

You cannot have a brain,
and complacent too.
You cannot have backbone,
and conformist too.

You cannot have heart,
and host prejudice too.
You cannot be human,
and popular too.

You cannot have a self,
and not burn it.
You cannot have a life,
and not sacrifice it.

You cannot have eyes,
and not see through lies.
You cannot have ears,
and not hear the tears.

You cannot have arms,
and not stretch in aid.
You cannot have feet,
and not burn the chains.

You cannot have veins,
and not boil at cruelty.
You cannot have nerves,
and not ignite at injustice.

You cannot have government,
and homelessness too.
You cannot have innovation,
and fail accessibility too.

You cannot aim for the stars,
while failing life on earth.
You have zero right to luxury,
while children suffer and starve.

You cannot have godmen,
and claim to know the truth.
You cannot be fundamentalist,
and have faith too.

You cannot have faith,
and fail tolerance.
You cannot have science,
and fail at service.

You cannot have culture,
and fail integration.
You cannot have internet,
and fail common sense.

You cannot have a society,
and fail empathy.
You cannot have language,
and fail understanding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“No wall is tall enough to contain my height, no pulpit sacred enough to baptize my eye, no table broad enough to accommodate my shoe, no accolade is bright enough to add to my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm the Original Virtue that predates vermin vaticans,
I'm the First Piety that predates all promised estate.
I'm the Sacred Science that defangs all poison saffron,
I'm the Ink of Mind that outdates doctrinal malignance.

I'm the Original Swastika that predates all reichs,
I'm the Sunrise that outlives puny stars and stripes.
I'm Justice, I'm Dervish, I'm phenyl to the fascist -
my footsteps are the law, I'm pesticide to prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)

Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.

Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.

You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.

You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another - truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.

I'm Noel, I'm Iftar -
I'm oneness, I'm Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Keepers of Earth (Sonnet 2656)

Every country has its local beacon of humanity,
you don't need to look to another country
to know what the best of humanity looks like -

if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Russian, think like Tolstoy -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -

if you are Serbian, think like Nikola -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal -
if you are English, think like Jane Goodall.

But if you fail to call any country your own,
if the whole charade of nationality
and tribal identity feels meaningless to you,
then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you fail to call any country your own, if the whole charade of nationality and tribal identity feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country has its local beacon of humanity -
if you are American, think like MLK -
if you are South African, think like Madiba -
if you are Indian, think like Narendranath Dutta -
if you are Azerbaijani, think like Nasimi -
if you are Turkish, think like Mustafa Kemal.

But If the whole charade of nationality feels meaningless to you, then you may come
and walk beside Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Only fact in this universe - is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ek Insaan, aur ek hi lakshya;
Moksh ka matlab ek hi manushya.
Dharm se upar Insaan hi satya;
Imaan Insaaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Khoon nahi, Rehmat pehchaan;
Ek hi ummah - saara jahaan!
Ek hi kalma - pyar ka peygaam;
Jai Insaan, Noor-e Nadaan!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Insaan se ucha na vatan, na khoon,
Na koi sanskaar, na koi kaanoon.
Rehmat se jiye to har roz ramzaan,
Insaan se mile Insaan ka sukoon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Insaan se ucha na vatan, na khoon, na koi sanskaar, na koi kaanoon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ik Onkaar, Satnaam Shahaada;
Koi bole paani, koi bole water.
Utho Insaan, Marham ka Sagar;
Ana al Haq, Vigyan Ujaagar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Na koi kaafir, na koi sant;
Na andh-vishwas in dharmgranth.
Love is my duty, brain is my flame;
I'm signpost on the cosmic lane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Every country needs just one person to embody the best of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Bring your brain, heart and backbone, but leave everything else at the door, your dictionary, your scripture, your constitution, your philosophy, or do not enter, there'll be no point.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Naskar is a madness, signpost of love against lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock