Humanitarian Literature Quotes

“One week of my life produces enough electricity to power a hundred years of humanitarian endeavor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“I am not here to garner popularity for myself. I am the Himalayas, and I am here to leave behind an insurmountable legacy of humanitarian material that floods the world with Everests by the hundreds.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Undercover Armageddon: World Engineering Omnibus

“With my keyboard I've defended the meek,
With my keyboard I've castrated the pricks.
With my keyboard I've brought down dictators,
With my keyboard I've schooled bigoted pigs.

With my keyboard I've raised Gods by hundreds,
With my keyboard I've delivered world-builders.
With my keyboard I've produced hatebusters,
With my keyboard I've raised bulldozers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Naskar doesn't write for the white or colored, for the believer or nonbeliever, for the capitalist or socialist - Naskar only writes for the human - because Naskar is human - a whole human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat
(Pani, Agua, Water Sonnet)

In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.

Saying, you've explored my work,
after spending an evening scrolling
through a few quotes, is like saying,
you've climbed Mount Everest,
after spending an evening scrolling
through pictures of the Himalayas.

Yet I can tell you who I am,
I don't need a million lines but one.
Iman insaniyat, mazhab muhabbat*;
Pani, agua, water, it's all one.

Take my Bible, Koran & Vedas,
Take my Origin of Species.
Throw me to the fires of hell,
My life will still smell of roses.

(*faith humanity, religion love)”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“When Calls A Promise:

I made a promise to someone that I would protect humankind with my life - that I would let no savagery, no prejudice, no sectarianism tear my people apart - that I would spend every breath of my life in uniting my people - the people of earth. And my very existence is the living manifestation of that promise.

Don't make promises that you know not whether you will be able to keep, but once you do make a promise, keep it at all cost, even at the cost of your life, which is exactly the kind of promise I made - to give my life in the unification of humankind.

Initially I thought I would achieve that by erasing the religious barriers amongst people. Hence, in the beginning I wrote ceaselessly on religion, but as I kept studying the tenets of the society, I came to realize that the barriers amongst people have invaded every aspect of life and society, much beyond the mere traditional bounds of religion - they have invaded the very lifeblood of society and have been tearing the society apart from inside out.

I came to realize that the religion of the future is not going to be christianity, islam, judaism or any such traditional system, rather, the religion of the future is going to be social justice. And the best way to shape the future is to envision it early on and start manufacturing it today. Thus, though initially the primary premise of my work was religion, eventually it acquired much wider and diverse societal roots.

My purpose remains the same, that is, to unite you all, to unite my seven billion sisters and brothers of earth, but I had to make a few changes to my approach based on the need of the time as I kept evolving with my work. I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.

Society needed not yet another scientist, it needed a reformer scientist, so I became one. All my life my need has been to serve the need of the society - need mark you, not desire. There is a difference between what the society desires and what it really needs. Society may desire for more bigotry, more segregation, more rigidity, more separatism, but that's not what the society needs - a civilized society needs humility, not bigotry - it needs inclusion, not segregation - it needs reason, not rigidity - it needs assimilation, not separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“Failing to be American (The Sonnet)

I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment
of my early days of writing, but in vain.
Once you wake up to the vastness of the world,
it is impossible to revert to the tribal lane.

I broke into the world scene as a westerner but,
Naskar the American writer exists no longer.
Today Naskar is but an Earth philosopher,
There is only Naskar the Earth reformer.

In the early years when I wrote on America,
I used to write as an American writer.
Today when I write on any nation,
I write as an Earth writer.

The whole world is my diary,
I am the world's destiny.
Try as they might to maintain prejudice,
I am the line between humanity and nationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“What I have written in ten years, will last for over 10,000 years.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am just the portal, cosmos is the writer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Quite often I lose count of my works,
Yet I've never had a fancy book launch.
I write in silence, I release in silence,
I have no relation to praise and applause.
I am the peak of humanitarian literature,
All without an ounce of support or award.
I am not a writer, I am world reformer,
My first concern is an integrated world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am the peak of humanitarian literature,
All without an ounce of support or award.
I am not a writer, I am world reformer,
My first concern is an integrated world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Miracle and Migraine (Sonnet 1370)

Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.

Kind words cost us nothing,
Cruel words will cost us all.
Faith in people costs us nothing,
Systemic mistrust will end us all.

It is common knowledge in the circle,
I don't control words, I get visions.
However, every miracle takes its toll,
Hence, the migraines are getting worse.

I don't mind, so long as I am ointment.
You keep the magic, I'll keep the pain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Words are my leisure,
Words are my life.
Words are my gift to thee,
Use 'em wisely for light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Burn my books, and go lift the world!
Let me live in your blood, not in books.
Fetch your nerves and wield your backbone,
You are the cure to the paradigm of crooks.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Someone asked me the other day, do I like to write prose better or poetry? To which I can only say - both are fundamental to my works. In fact, I started out with prose, as you might remember - and my most invigorating ideas came to this world in the form of prose. Along the way, I felt a craving for poetry, so quite on a whim I wrote the first sonnet. Suddenly an entire new horizon opened up to me. Eventually prose and poetry became equally potent carrier of my ideas - they became complimentary to each other - they became supplementary to each other. However, I do admit, as I grow older, I'm getting more and more drawn towards poetry as my primary vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“My entire universe of work is a clarion call for acceptance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“I am justice to the activists,
Common sense to the scientists,
I'm illumination to philosophers,
I am existence to existentialists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't write to sell books, I write because my mind teeters on the edge of psychosis if I spend a single day without writing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I don't write to sell books,
I write because my mind succumbs
to psychosis, if I don't write.
I don't write to sell books,
I write because I fall to pieces, even
at the thought of not being able to write.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I am not a poetry factory, I am humanitarian poetry factory,”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I am not a poetry factory,
I am humanitarian poetry factory,
I'm not what's normally called poetry,
I'm a new paradigm of inoculating poetry.

I am inoculation against hate,
I am inoculation against rigidity.
In a world infested with etymologies,
I am living testament to impossible inclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Ideas Surpass Gold
(Sonnet 1530)

Most of my boldest ideas are
available online without paywall.
Which means, you don't need to pay,
to integrate my ideas into your life.

Since I don't have an industry behind,
it does help when you make a purchase.
But I never ask no one to buy my books,
I'd rather starve than monetize oneness.

Soon this body will surpass corporeal chains,
monetary demands of living will collapse a lie.
I mustn't stain my sacred life craving coins,
Ideas must surpass gold to surpass time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Show me a spark of social responsibility, I shall turn it into humanitarian wildfire.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Don't memorize, live my sonnets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator