Citizens of Peace Quotes

“A glass of water has no value on its own, but the moment it quenches the thirst of an exhausted person, it turns more valuable than gold. Be a glass of water and quench the thirst of others. A glass of water doesn’t need any fancy introduction to be hailed important, it doesn't need pomp and ceremony to be seen as significant, it doesn’t need any fancy attire to appear appealing, all it needs to do is be there for the thirsty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Most humans are refugees in our countries because all our ancestors scattered across the globe from our homeland Africa.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“If we don't take responsibility of what happens to our society, then no amount of Independence can improve human condition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Be a glass of water and quench the thirst of others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“People do not care about right or wrong - they don't care about truth and reasoning - they are subconsciously driven by their instinct for survival, towards confidence, charm and charisma, just like moths are drawn towards a burning candle to face their inevitable demise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“You know what it means to be human? It means justice coming out of your synapses - it means equality bursting out of your arteries - it means your footsteps causing an avalanche of acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“No pilgrimage is holier than compassion, no gospel is truer than kindness, no offering is grander than love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“People from one side of the border most proudly kill people from the other side of the border and they call it patriotism. If this is patriotism, then I'd rather be the most unpatriotic person on earth, than be a savage patriot with no more brains in the skull than a neanderthal. Whom are you fighting, who are your enemies, and on whose orders are you fighting them, and how much sure are you that the superiors and their political authorities who are giving you all those commands, are actually even capable of making decisions on matters of peace and progress! Being a politician, doesn't mean being capable of making the best decisions for a people. So, if you keep following their commands like blind dogs in the hope of some miserable medals, then they'll rip this world apart into pieces and you are going to be the ammunition in that deed. You are born a human, so act like one, not for god’s sake, but for your children’s sake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Being a politician, doesn't mean being capable of making the best decisions for a people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“We are not an advanced species – not when millions of our sisters and brothers still go hungry - not when countless of our siblings still don't have a roof over their head - not when many still spend every second of their life in fear of being bombed to death. And to change this, we need sacrifice - sacrifice of bravehearts - sacrifice of young lions and bold tigresses - sacrifice of boiling blood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“People love to say, everybody is entitled to their opinions. It is one of the greatest fallacies of human habit. Everybody is not entitled to their opinion, not when their opinion advocates for segregation and discrimination. Freedom of speech doesn't mean saying whatever one wants, it means saying what's non-discriminatory, non-prejudicial and nonbarbarian. Bigots may have the right to say that all Mexicans are drug smugglers, all black and brown people are inferior humans, or all nonmuslims are infidels, inside the narrow bounds of their own house, but they are not entitled to express such opinion, when amidst people, amidst a civilized society. Remember, acceptance of bigotry and discrimination is the same as advocating for bigotry and discrimination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“To the law enforcement officials I say, "uphold not law, but justice, for when you uphold law, you need to explain yourself to your superiors, but when you uphold justice, you do not need to explain your actions to anyone, for your very actions will be the testament of justice".”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“The presence of law implies the presence of injustice, not justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“In any war, except that for freedom from oppression, victory of any nation, is the defeat of all nations, because each war comes at the cost of lives, in the name of the same old tribal loyalty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Helping a human is equivalent of a hundred pilgrimages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Age is a question of mind over matter - if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“In a thousand years, nobody will remember the naysayers and meek worshippers, but your work will write your name upon the very fabric of time in golden engravings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“You can take the human out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“In everyday life of the common human, reason takes a back seat and emotions dictate all significant behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“If you want to end a war, don't wait for the orders to come in - stand up and demand from the government to focus on peace and not on war, and if they ignore you, which they most likely would, then forget their intervention and go over to the other side yourself as a vulnerable and unarmed citizen of not a nation, but of peace. And when one side of the border has a handful of such citizens of peace, then the other side is bound to reciprocate that peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“In a war, both sides genuinely believe that they are on the side of righteousness, yet no righteousness ever shows them the futility of the very war they are fighting. Because, both sides are driven by the instinctual force of nationalist patriotism. So, think of the countless wars that have caused gallons and gallons of bloodshed, all because warriors on both sides were incapable of reasoning due to the cognitive blindness caused by nationalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Sovereignty is injurious to humankind. We can either have sovereignty or harmony, not both - we can either have sovereignty or universal acceptance, not both - we can either have sovereignty or humanity, not both. As long as we think in terms of sovereign nations, we can never have a serene planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Dictatorship has had an external makeover and is labeled today as democracy, where the people are kept under control by means of false security. And in this new dictatorship, people are happy as long as they are made to think that they themselves are making the decisions of their life, while in reality those decisions are made under the dictatorship of specific political parties that mainly consist of politicians, who in most cases have no more brains than termites. And this process of social delusion is sustained by the modern con-artists (either conscious or subconscious) called politicians (not all) with the use of psychologically reinforcing terms such as "democracy", "freedom", "sovereignty" and many more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Independence without responsibility is barbarism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Time is memory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“To unite this whole world with the thread of acceptance and harmony, may sound like a titanic task, but all it takes is one generation of conscientious and responsible citizens in each nation - if only these handful of young members of the society around the world take up the responsibility to raise, not citizens of a nation, but citizens of a planet, then no force in the world can keep the process of unification of humans manifesting in front of our eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“It's very much likely that no one will care for your agonies and miseries, if you choose the path of service over the path of everyday pleasures. To them you will be a pillar of strength, standing high and quite lifeless to erase people's miseries and confusions... Knowing this, if you still can’t hold yourself from running to the aid of the helpless and downtrodden, then my friend, there is no power in any obscurity to keep you from uplifting the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Society, society and society, this should be on your mind 24/7.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Be afraid, be extreme and be absurd - be afraid of losing touch - be extreme in accepting others - and be absurd in serving society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“If you choose not to speak up and stay deaf, dumb and blind instead, then take this oath - "all bigots, fundamentalists and sectarianists are my bosom friends - I shall always be faithful to them - I shall always stand by them, no matter how inhuman they behave - and I shall always do my best to promote their atrocities by maintaining my silence in the face of prejudice, hatred and inhumanism".”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty