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“A great many people confuse attention with admiration, they think a stunt is an achievement and misbehavior a declaration of independence.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Power doesn't mean to control people, real power is to bring happiness in their lives.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Humans without borders, that's what the world needs - beings of conscience and courage, with no rigidity of religion, gender, nationality, or any other.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Beyond fear there is clarity - beyond weakness there is victory - beyond insecurity there is life.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Instincts are older, but thoughts are recent, that's why instincts are more powerful than thoughts - that's why it takes great will power to express a thought through action, while instincts come so easily. However, if we continue practicing our thoughts long enough, eventually the instincts that hold power over us will turn powerless. And this my friend, ought to be the next step of our evolution, and that's why it's no longer merely a matter of natural selection, it's what I hereby dub "sapient selection", that is the process of determining the path of our evolution ourselves.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Discrimination is the mark of a savage, assimilation is the mark of a sage.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“The less your needs, the stronger your integrity.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“It's not enough to shout about equality, we must feel it, mean it and act on it.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If a billionaire really starts doing actual humanitarian work in their fullest capacity, they would stop being billionaires.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“A progressive society is a self-scrutinizing society.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“You can sit in a dark room and think of light all you want, but that won't change the reality of the darkness around, but step up to light a candle and suddenly the dark reality turns into one filled with light.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“I am not bound by law, for my law is my accountability towards society, which itself makes me do what's right and best for the society. I am not here to be guided by the illusive societal paradigms, legal or any other, I am here to point those paradigms in a humane direction, so that they can recognize their shortcomings and evolve into something better. But if ever the dark day comes when I commit an inhumanity, I will sentence myself to death.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“I don't care about your religious belief or disbelief, all I care about is your behavior with others.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If you do a few good deeds and then say, that's it, I've completed my daily quota of good deeds, then that's not goodness, but a mockery of goodness. When a river flows does it ever count the villages it passes by and then say that's it, I have completed my daily quota of providing people water - it doesn't, it simply keeps flowing, without keeping count of how many people are blessed by its water. Be like the river my friend and do good without keeping count.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“En modig död är mycket bättre än ett fegt liv.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“A for assimilation is the way,
B for bigotry must be thrown away.
C for conscience when at play,
D for delusions all run away.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If we don’t give back to the society, we'll die of obesity.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Human brain is the supreme creator of all fortune.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Humanity A to Z (The Poem)

A for assimilation is the way,
B for bigotry must be thrown away.
C for conscience when at play,
D for delusions all run away.
E for equality once brought to life,
F for fears can no longer survive.
G for greed when let not to thrive,
H for humility won't be caught in strife.
I for integrity mustn't be compromised,
J for justice will then prevail alright.
K for kindness must never run tight,
L for life can then be lived upright.
M for mercy can never be forgotten,
N for naivety keeps you from being rotten.
O for oppression when is begotten,
P for patience must be overridden.
Q for questions when let fly,
R for rigidity will weaken and die.
S for serenity will go awry,
T for tradition if obeyed dry.
U for unity is our supreme mission,
V for vanity leads only to destruction.
W for wholeness is our salvation,
X for xenophobia is no civilization.
Y for yield we must never to separation,
Z for zeal we mustn't lose for ascension.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Whenever you have some extra money and you think of buying something fancy, ask yourself, do you really need that product, or are you just trying to fill the holes in your life with more possessions? If your conscience tells you that you don't really need it, then use that money to empower a small local business in some way, or perhaps raise some funds among friends and help someone in your neighborhood to set up a business or use those funds to fix the problems of your neighborhood. Find out where the money is needed most and use it there.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Every time you waste money on nonessentials, you are essentially contributing to the economic disparities of the world.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“You cannot simply waste money on the newest model of the iPhone, when countless homes across the world can't even afford electricity. You cannot simply have food fights in the name of fun, when countless people across the world don't even have two wholesome meals in a day. You cannot simply waste a ridiculous amount of money on fancy suits, dresses, wines, cars and mansions when our very own kind is suffering on a daily basis round the clock.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Awake, arise, be the vessel of life and humanity, not of death and savagery.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“To slaughter people, either in mind or in action, in the name of tribe is valor of the stone age, to love a stranger as our own family is valor of a civilized society.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“There is power in you to either make the world or break the world - so what will it be?”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If you can devote your existence to one purpose, to such an extent that you breathe that purpose, dream that purpose and live that purpose, then your mind automatically gets rewired as per your will to serve that purpose.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human
“If I could write every single idea that appears in my head, an entire library will fall short for my books.”
Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

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