Neden Türk Quotes

“Pain delivers progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Expand my sisters and brothers - expand your hearts – expand your minds - expand your horizons beyond the wildest imaginations of your traditions - and the whole world will become your home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There's no charity, there's only humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“We cannot solve the problems that our ancestors couldn't by thinking and acting like them - and more importantly, we cannot solve the problems that our ancestors created by thinking and acting like them - we must think original and act out of that originality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“For the society to sustain itself and progress at the same time, there must be a healthy interaction between order and chaos. Remember, every feat of originality is born of chaos, but to make that feat effective in society, a little order is required.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Industry is not the sign of advancement, equality is.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There is a difference between growing up and growing old - most people grow old without ever growing up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“It's the golden glint of a kind heart that nourishes the fabric of society, not the scorching heat of argumentation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Only the words that you speak with your heart will reach another heart, but those spoken with mere lips will reach nowhere.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There is no time, there is no space, there is only love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“It's better to be broken to pieces in love than to stay intact as a cold, untouched glass sculpture filled with hate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Scriptures do have a role in society, but only as literature, like any other literature, nothing more.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Life is one big prejudice unless you question everything.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Ya Atatürk'ün Türksün ya da Erdoğan'ın Türksün.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Ya Atatürk'ün Türk'üsün ya da Erdoğan'ın Türk'üsün.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Nefret dolu, soğuk ve dokunulmamış bir heykel gibi sağlam kalmaktansa, parçalanmak daha iyidir.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Life is one big prejudice,
Unless you question everything.
Perception is one big bias,
Unless you see beyond the seeing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“God ain't up there but here in you and me. Awake, Arise O Mighty Gods to die for the unfree.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Unutma arkadasim (forget not my friend), enemy of secularism is enemy of the people, for enemy of secularism is enemy of progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“There's no place for rigidity in liberty's lands. On the odyssey of revolutions life expands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“The more you give life, the more you'll have life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Battle Hymn of The Public (The Humanist Sonnet)

Mine eyes have seen the glory,
Of the rising of the Gods.
We are fighting all the worry,
Trampling authority of the frauds.
We are awakening ourselves,
Breaking the spell of tradition.
Finally we are breathing free,
Devoid of all segregation.
We still have our prejudices,
But we no longer bow to them.
Biases may still prevail in us,
No more do we submit to them.
God ain't up there but here in you and me.
Awake, Arise O Mighty Gods to die for the unfree.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Life is Prejudice (The Sonnet)

Life is one big prejudice,
Unless you question everything.
Perception is one big bias,
Unless you see beyond the seeing.
Opinions are a bunch of lies,
Till curiosity surpasses comfort.
Beliefs may very well be delusion,
Till traditions are examined with real effort.
Faith can very easily be fiction,
Unless you distinguish superstition.
Morality can turn out to be myth,
Unless you embrace evolution.
There's no place for rigidity in liberty's lands.
On the odyssey of revolutions life expands.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“Synthetic Civilization (The Sonnet)

The watchwords of civilization,
Are reason and inclusion.
Yet we live by the golden rules,
Of rigidity and exclusion.
We dress up in fancy clothes,
To feel powerful and important.
Beneath the lies of civilization,
Beats a heart most impotent.
We boast proudly about equality,
Unaware of our biases most inane.
We admire the rights of our own,
Rights of others are business of the UN.
Enough of this make belief ascension.
It’s time to humanize our synthetic civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“We have arrived at a point of time in history, where there is no place for exclusive national or cultural identity upon the fabric of society. With one hand foster your cultural identity, with another assimilate others - this is the golden principle of progress, both national and global.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“The very condition of life is expansion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“The answer to the problems of our world is not more armed intervention, but intervention of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“If you want to conquer something, conquer hearts, not lands - if you want possessions, possess memories, not materials.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“You must give life to have life - without shallowness, without narrowness - with your arms wide open and heart expanded - the more you give life, the more you'll have life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“In a civilized society there is nothing great about getting laid, animals do that all the time, but laying down oneself for the benefit of others, that's greatness - and more importantly, that's humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism