Tierra Carta Quotes

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you love a living writer, buy their books, support them in a meaningful way, otherwise it's all just performative love, which only makes you feel good about yourself, but does nothing to help the cause you say you care about.

You won't lose anything by missing out on two cups of coffee to buy one or two books by your favorite thinker, poet or novelist, but that little gesture of tangible support means more to an author than a hundred likes.

Coffee makes you alert, books make you awake. Booze makes you forget life, books bring you to life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Tall skyscrapers don't constitute civilization, if half the population still sleep on the streets - space exploration doesn't constitute advancement, if half the children never wake up the next day”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My first language is English,
my second language is Turkish,
my third language is Spanish.

English is my slave,
Spanish is my friend and brother,
and Turkish, my lover.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The vast terrains of the himalayas are carpeted with corpses that failed to make it, yet the Himalayas stand, indifferent and undented by the yelp reviews of apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Naskar Terrain (Sonnet 2962)

If you refuse to call me a scientist,
because I place science at the feet
of the humans, not above their head -

if you refuse to call me a philosopher,
because I count philosophy second to life,
not the center of life -

if you refuse to call me a theologian,
because I place divinity inside the humans,
not outside and above them -

if you refuse to call me a poet because
I refuse to obey white man's fancy full-stomach
rhyme and meter, then be it, my child -

the vast terrains of the himalayas are
carpeted with corpses that failed to make it,
yet the Himalayas stand, indifferent
and undented by the yelp reviews of apes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I've descended from exploding stars,
and you think you with your
monkey mind can erase me,

you can own all the rockets, all the satellites,
all the armies, robots, and all the banks,
still you cannot dampen my nerve fibers
charged with lightning from the heavens -

there is starlight bursting in my arteries,
there is comet-dust in my veins -
I spin like a mad dervish, and particles
conspire to construct the cosmos in my wake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don't want fewer believers, I want belief centered on compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I want scientists with character, not just a militant mouth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Servant Scientists (Naskaristana 2907)

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.

Growing up in the lap of aristocratic luxury,
then calling people's basic necessities a delusion,
it doesn't make you a great scientist,
it just makes you a white colonial trash.

If religion must accept the responsibility
for religious fanaticism, science must also accept
the responsibility for scientific mindlessness,
because intelligence without compassion
is more dangerous than ignorance with power.

True science will always be ethical,
but greed-centered apes cannot fathom such science,
nor can privilege-pampered aristocratic knowitalls,
their science is more concerned with what can be done,
instead of asking whether it should be done.

This is not the Science of Naskar -
I don't want fewer scientists,
I want scientists with character,
not just a militant mouth -
I don't want fewer believers,
I want belief centered on compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it science. I stand undivided, they call it theology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“El agua compartida se convierte en espíritu.
La brisa compartida se convierte en aliento.
El sueño compartido se convierte en vida.
La tierra compartida se convierte en paraíso.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Earth monkeys confuse terrorism for civilization, exploitation for exploration, prejudice for heritage, inequality for economy, indifference for democracy, they even set up establishments to normalize their incessant bloodlust as tradition, and punish dissenters as traitors.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“In many of the monkey nations of earth their local governments often ban books, and yet not a single earth country has banned guns - in some countries you just need money, in some countries you need a licence, in others you need to be a soldier or copper, but not a single country has actually banned guns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I don't consider any white man's opinion worthy of respect until they've proven that they're on the side of humanity, not their thieving ancestors’ - and this applies not just to the white man of faith, but also the white man of reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome, but Nazism, Zionism, Hindutva, Islamism, belong in medical case history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Every scientist that designs a weapon, every soldier that picks up the weapon, every politician that deploys the soldier, every civilian that elects the politician, is a war criminal.”
― 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

“Whether you're native or foreign to a language isn't determined by blood, it's determined by whether you have to translate it in your head from another language.

Nativity of language has nothing to do with literacy or grammatical accuracy - any language that comes to you naturally, any language that bypasses the translation circuits of your brain, and forms spontaneous speech, albeit flawed, is your native language.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Unrestrained science is a hundred times more dangerous than blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“All customs don't make culture, customs rooted in fanaticism must be rooted out, so that actual human culture can take root.”
― 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

“Life would be fast and easy if we kicked the bucket at birth, but quality of life is in the memories, skip the memories, and it's just air.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“No matter how social media started, modern social media are glorified gambling sites.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“On this planet of apes, calling out hate falls under hate speech, but actual hate falls under tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you want safe, straightforward Naskar, read everything I wrote till about 2017, if you got the backbone to confront prejudice, read things I wrote till 2023 - but do not even dare to touch the works I poured after 2023, with a tribal, sectarian, linear, neanderthal mindset -

post-2023 Naskar texts are not for a planet of apes, they're for the humans who have genuinely outgrown the constraints of nation, religion, faith, intellect, facts, fiction, and all that dualistic jungle garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Intelligence without compassion is more dangerous than ignorance with power.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Beware of fanatics bearing good news, but also beware of aristocrats bearing reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Any theology that starts with ethnic narcissism, by default becomes the lowest form of smut on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Mythology as mythology is great literature, but mythology as history is fake literature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth