Humanitarian Quotes

“To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things. Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological. So if you want to see real change, stay persistent in educating humanity on how similar we all are than different. Don't only strive to be the change you want to see in the world, but also help all those around you see the world through commonalities of the heart so that they would want to change with you. This is how humanity will evolve to become better. This is how you can change the world. The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.”
― Dr. Albert Schweitzer

“Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join me.”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment

“I wish the enemy would hesitate to shoot when they see me, but you can't expect humanitarianism on the battlefield.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world. And tomorrow there will be a hundred more stupid like me, for this stupidity for changing the world can never accept any excuse for inaction, even if that excuse happens to be a most rational reason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“If there is not a single Naskar in sight, be the Naskar of your generation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“My divinity, my design -
my truth, my decision -
my society, my justice -
my planet, my duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“My planet, my duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Creatures with light eternal,
don’t shine to stir public opinion.
I gleam, ’cause that’s my life,
I know no other way of existence.
Puny apes gotta find an agenda,
for most are anemic of effulgence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Human is a pious promise,
not host to parasitic paranoia.
Earth is my homerock, sky is my robe -
End of tribe is birth of culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Unself your soul,
Unchain your mind.
Await no mythic might,
Unleash your thundertide!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every seeker is tomorrow's yesterday.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Ask the blaze of my trail,
if you drown in doubts or dismay -
you exist best when you exist not,
every seeker is tomorrow's yesterday.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Naskar Anthem
(Sonnet 2554-2555)

Heir to no throne,
no crown on my head,
tearing up borderly lies,
I burn as the lamp of aid.

I hold no flag,
yet I raise nations,
I stand as rebel guard,
humanizing inoculation.

Rocking the world with sacred wonder,
priming the souls with curing thunder,
every sonnet is call against slumber,
every line, a revolt against plunder.

From the alleys of grief
to the towers of pride,
I am wounded, I walk with
the wounded by my side.

Not born to erase faith,
but to rewrite it tolerant;
suffering is the doorway,
to the becoming of a saint.

A pair of helping hands is holier
than a million praying lips;
I got no need for scripture,
for I carry a heart that beats.

I have no law, but life -
I have no edict, but empathy.
I have no creed, but conscience -
I am the vow of mad inclusivity.

Roads ignited with the voice of oneness,
cannot be extinguished by clouds of hate.
When the final regime has fallen to pieces,
the drop of dew will still be incandescent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Heir to no throne,
no crown on my head,
tearing up borderly lies,
I burn as the lamp of aid.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human speaks, mountains wake,
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Human walks, the soil revives,
forgotten streets all come to life -
with every step, with every beat,
Awake, Arise, and Breathe Complete!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When one Naskar dies,
a thousand Naskars will rise.
Naskar is a madness,
signpost of love against lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You hunger for tall walls, I hunger for tall humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“In a paradigm of hate,
be the paradox of love -
glue to the galaxy,
epoxy of the epoch.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on service, and problem solved.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Champions of freedom are champions of truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Stars that burn for others, wither in body, but live in light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Rise, O Peoples of Earth –
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar –
Fire the fascists, free the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Rise, O Children of Earth,
no matter the color or culture,
you have more heart than ape empires,
more soul than parasites and vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty,
now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“It takes a man to know what another man is going through.”
― Kwasi Joseph Essin