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

“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

“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

“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

“My heart is yours, your heart is mine.”
― 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

“When breath of one becomes the breath of all,
All atrocious walls will collapse into dust.
When there’s no more ‘my people your people’,
Only then we will be human at last.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society