Sleepless for Society Quotes

“Once you learn to question, you will start to learn.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“The purpose of law is to punish inhumanity, whereas the purpose of armed forces is to prevent inhumanity”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Those who do not appreciate the soldiers should try to live without the soldiers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“When love awakens so will the world, for love is the seed of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Better a character without fancy clothes than fancy clothes without character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“It's time to start dreaming and working towards the impossible dream - the dream of freedom not oppression, the dream of assimilation not discrimination, and above all, the dream of ascension not descension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Try a crime you end a criminal, treat an environment you end crime.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“You may come or not to walk beside me, I won't stand still in silence while the oceans burn and the sun turns dark - I will either right the wrongs or perish in the attempt - and even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness - I am not born a human to crawl as an indifferent vermin, I am born a human to embrace death for the values, the principles, the virtues that ought to be the foundation of human civilization - I am sleepless and I will stay sleepless till all the children of earth can sleep in peace with a full stomach and a happy heart, without worrying about guns and bombs, without worrying about prejudice and phobia, without worrying about discrimination and deportation - I will stay sleepless till the whole world becomes a family, not in theory, not in philosophy, not in argument, not even in futuristic vision, but in reality and practice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“If you are not ready to surrender in service at the feet of the helpless, don't tell anyone you are a human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Everything that's worth anything in the world has been achieved by the inquiring mind full of questions, not by those full of rituals and prejudice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“I haven't come for science, I have come for love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“I prefer the ground over the pedestal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“My heart is yours, your heart is mine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“You cannot find yourself till you lose yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Someone has to stand up to lift the world up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“There is a path from one heart to another that you cannot see with eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Take pride in individuals, not in labels - not in labels of religion, not in labels of nationality, not in labels of party, not even in labels of intellect, philosophy and schools of thought.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Where there is love, there is action. And lack of action is actually lack of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“We are manifestations of the same force of nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“The seed of cultural harmony lies not in the culture you are born in but in the recognition of the sweetness of other cultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Culture should be a path, not a prison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Seek peace, peace will disappear, seek purpose, peace will appear.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Remembering the martyrs and honoring the armed forces on veterans day may make you feel proud, but sustaining a tradition that conditions you to celebrate the loss of life in the name of patriotism is not something to take pride in - if anything this celebration is a brutal reminder of tribalism - of our shortfalls - of our inability to assimilate - of our failure in becoming truly civilized. Therefore, the need of the hour is, we work so that we no longer need a veterans day.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“An illogical yet humane step towards an impossible future is a thousand times better than a logical yet inhuman step towards a possible future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“AMERICA means Affectionate, Merciful, Egalitarian, Responsible, Inclusive, Conscientious and Accepting.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“All is one, one is all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“The life of one is the life of all. Either we are one family or nothing at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Antingen är vi en familj eller ingenting alls.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Fred är ett annat namn för kärlek.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Jag dör varje dag så att dina barn kan leva.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society