Social Reform Quotes

“The greatest meditation is revolution for assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“A homeless guy lifts a bread out of hunger, it's called burglary, but a cool-looking guy rips off an entire population, while spreading disparities wider than ever, it's called entrepreneurship. What a world! What a pathetic world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“It is under the law of justice, under the reign of right, under the influence of liberty, security, stability, and responsibility, that every man will attain to the fullness of his worth, to all the dignity of his being, and that mankind will accomplish with order and with calmness...the progress ordained for it.”
― Frederick Bastiat, The Law

“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 32

Don't wait up for destiny to happen to you,
Stand up and be the destiny of the world.
I didn't wait for the world to happen to me,
I stood up and happened to the world.
Sit no more holding out for a magical messiah,
All the world's magic is just human creation.
Magic is just code for human determination,
There is nothing paranormal, only dedication.
No more bowing in front of the altar of tradition,
Be a radical star and explode for your purpose.
Your light shall live on in people's memory,
As you pour out all life for the good of others.
Destiny and fate are constructs of fear and insecurity.
Conquer your fears and rise as the human almighty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“The Gentalist Sonnet

I only ask one thing of my soldier – everything!
Give up all, so that those with nothing receive life.
What can I give to thee, except for this life of mine,
Says the brave gentalist across all personal strife.
Gente means people, and people are the music of life.
Love the people, lift the people, people are the way.
Not your people, not my people, it's all one people.
Once you feel it in your bones, uplift is on its way.
I don't believe in a messiah, I don't believe in a god,
‘Cause I’m far too accountable for my society, my world.
Thus speaks the gentalist, burning with a sense of duty,
Thus speaks the living aid, who ain’t no mythical lord.
If a chunk of alum can purify a bucket of putrid water,
Your heart can purify the world with its gentalist power.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Only in fairytales exists a world of perfection. Our mission is not utopia, but eternal correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“We need ten percent meditation, ninety percent revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“When wholeness is now and here, reform is everywhere. When oneness is now and here, uplift is everywhere. When the human is now and here, humanity is everywhere.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Transparency is the better part of reform.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“There's more to life than left and right, there's more to life than red and blue, there's more to life than east and west, there's more to life than facts and fluke.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Every responsible civilian is a reformist, whereas every apathetic civilian is a terrorist,”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Civilization is a process, not a place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Reform is just another name for responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Not all con-artists are billionaires, but every billionaire is a con-artist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Equality begins in the mind. If in our own mind we have a pedestal for the billionaire and royalty, and no place for the janitor and the bartender, then even a thousand policy reforms won't be able to equalize such a cockeyed, internally broken society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Your footsteps will strike terror in terrorists,
Your voice will give chills to the divisionists.
Turn your existence into a beacon of help,
Possess this world with acts of love and uplift.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“In a world of animals one who is human has more haters than admirers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 82

I am a soldier, I am a reformer.
What will I do with a long life!
If you wanna bless me with something,
Bless me, O Nature, with courage to die with smile.
Life and death are civilian affair.
A reformer works each day with coffin in pocket.
There'll be no life for any of the civilians,
If the reformer slips into drunken enjoyment.
A reformer doesn't know what is a hangover,
Because a reformer is never sober.
Drunkenness of booze wears off in a day,
Drunkenness of sacrifice lasts through millennia.
The selfish drink to seek escape.
The reformer is too free to need such cheap help.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“If life had rejected mutation 3 billion years ago, we'd still be crawling around as single cell organism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Reform the politicians, you ensure reform in society for a few decades. Reform the citizens, you ensure reform in society for centuries.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Actual lasting change is independent of law and policy. Change reliant on policy has a very short life-expectancy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I hate guns and grenades,
Backbone is superior to all weaponry.
Reformer's CSF contains enough C4,
To blow up Alpha Centauri.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“Yes I am broken, I am broken to my last atom. You know why? Because the entire world is on my shoulders - because humankind is my responsibility. You call it God complex, I call it humanity - you call it masochism, I call it humanity - you call it insanity, I call it humanity. Be broken to pieces for the world, and you shall develop the insight into how all the pieces fit together. Destroy all internal order for the uplift of others, and your mind will wake up to the order of wholeness. Remember, there is no creation without a broken atom, there is no civilization without a broken human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Break the chains,
Take off the blinkers.
The whole world awaits,
For it needs to be tinkered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Heroes of culture are often branded as enemy of the state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Drunkenness of alcohol ruins life,
Drunkenness of scripture ruins society.
Drunkenness of ideology ruins the world,
Drunkenness of nationality ruins humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Our health, our intellect, our resources - if all these only benefit us and do nothing for the people around us, then what's the point of it all!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not back to the 1950s, but further back: to Dickensian times and to (corporate) feudal fiefdom. They want to wind the clock back to a time before the hard-won battles for civil rights, social reforms, and worker representation. A time long, long before the “woke virus”, “illegal immigrants”, and gender identity, when life was more conservative and white lives mattered; though with a new, fundamentalist, Christian nationalist (or Islamist, or ultra-Zionist, or even atheist) and isolationist twist. And some will go to any lengths – and I do mean any desperate, violent, draconian lengths – to bring this vile and unholy vision about. [From Preface]”
― H.M. Forester, Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: A crash course in Psi-fi, Romantic idealism, depth psychology, the daemonic, and Resistance