Peace Activist Quotes

“Orphanizers (Demilitarization Sonnet, 1303)

Show me a nation with a huge defense budget,
I'll show you a demented nation.
Show me a nation with a big education budget,
I'll show you a nation of the future.

Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers,
Thus you plant the paradigm of peace.
Abolish all pride in nation's military,
Thus you emerge as maker of peace.

The real warmongers of the world are,
Not the world leaders, but the civilians,
Who can't think past the strength of military,
Who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.

With such civilian primitiveness rampant in society,
No conference can ensure the promise of peace.
If you really want to ensure peace on planet earth,
Denounce all politics and democracy militarist.

Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Stop taking pride in your national military,
That very pride floods the world with orphans.
Amidst the herd of widowmakers and orphanizers,
Wake up alone, and slogan for demilitarization!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Pro Government or Pro Human Rights
(Earth Administrative Service, Sonnet 1304)

Either pro government or pro human rights,
A civilized human cannot be both.
Doesn't mean you're always anti government,
It means you pledge no one blanket support.

Gaza has made it more evident than ever,
No politician got the guts to rock the boat.
When the chips are down and balloon goes up,
Politicians hide behind the diplomacy door.

World leeches masquerading as world leaders,
Would sell their mothers if the price is right.
Sheeply civilians don't do much to change things,
So they seek comfort in snobbish arguments on AI.

Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance,
Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule.
If you want human rights to reign supreme,
Wake up and be the world leader of your hood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ceasefire only postpones war,
What’s needed is demilitarization.
Till borderly apes wake apart national pride,
Democracy only sustains a paradigm of poison.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ceasefire only postpones war, what’s needed is demilitarization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Disband the soldiers, empower the teachers, thus we plant the paradigm of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“When faced by an international conflict, forget diplomacy, forget statecraft, forget strategies and policies and ask yourself, what would a human do in this situation, not a politician, not a bureaucrat, not a law enforcement official, but a human? The tree of diplomacy only grows thorns of war, not fruits of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“The tree of diplomacy only grows thorns of war, not fruits of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace

“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

“I chose to take the weight of the world on my shoulders, but you don't necessarily have to. If you can't take the weight of the world on your shoulders, take the weight of your nation - if you can't take the weight of your nation, take the weight of your city - if you can't take the weight of your city, take the weight of your neighborhood. Start small but start somewhere - take responsibility for the issues of your immediate vicinity if not the whole world, and the world will change, slowly but surely.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“Either you'll know me as a national hero of every nation, or you won't know me at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Either you'll know me as a national hero
of every nation, or you won't know me at all.
So long as a single human calls me foreigner,
I'll conclude, I've achieved nothing at all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Rise My Lions,
Be Heroes of Earth!
(Sonnet 1289)

You gotta surpass your intellect and belief,
If you want to stand as healer and peacemaker.
If that's not what you want, do as you please;
My works are not for the self-absorbed taker.

We don't need to build a world of faith,
We don't need to build a world of logic.
We just need to build a world human enough,
To place without prejudice, all faith and logic.

We don't need to build a world with one superpower,
We gotta build a world where the world is superpower.
We don't need a world rotting in diplomatic gutter,
Let's build a world that has no geopolitical clutter.

It's not enough to be a national hero of one nation,
You gotta be a national hero of all nations.
That day I shall call you a human of earth,
When you are the gateway to world illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“It's not enough to be a national hero of one nation,
You gotta be a national hero of all nations.
That day I shall call you a human of earth,
When you are the gateway to world illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“We don’t need to build a world with one superpower,
We gotta build a world where the world is superpower.
We don’t need a world rotting in diplomatic gutter,
Let’s build a world that has no geopolitical clutter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“You gotta surpass your intellect and belief, if you want to stand as healer and peacemaker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Rise my Lions,
Be Heroes of Earth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Drunkard am I, absurd am I,
All I know is but love's insanity,
Past all Cross and MC squared,
Love is the only cosmic literacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“You are the eyeway to illumination,
You are the spineway to invigoration.
You are the headway to inspiration,
You are the heartway to assimilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“The real warmongers of the world are, not the world leaders, but the civilians, who can't think past the strength of military, who take pride in a genocidal arsenal of weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Citizenry is the problem,
Citizenry is the answer.
When citizenry decides on peace,
Albeit reluctant, world leaders wither.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Militant atheism is the antithesis of humanism. Fundamentalism is the antithesis of religion. Nationalism is the antithesis of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I am too alive to be bound by ideology,
I am too human to be bound by border.
Too civilized to pledge flagly allegiance,
I am the ultimate geopolitical defector.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Some make cars,
Some make rockets.
I am reformer,
not entrepreneur.
I make Gods and Prophets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“For justice I am mental,
My honor is not rental.
Amidst all heritage of fear,
I choose to be love elemental.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Everybody can quote Naskar, not everybody can accompany Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“What is Naskar (The Sonnet)

Naskar is a culture unto themselves,
Naskar is a nation unto themselves.
Naskar is a planet unto themselves,
Naskar is a paradigm unto themselves.

Naskar culture is integration,
Naskar nation is world nation.
Naskar planet is borderless,
Naskar paradigm is undivision.

Naskar is not a he or she,
Naskar is the whole of humanity.
Naskar is neither east nor west,
Naskarosphere is conscious unity.

Naskar is just a lesser synonym,
The original name is Human Being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Before being sworn into office, every head of state should spend a week in space, gathering some sense of the insurmountable gravity of our little blue home in the unfathomable vastness of the cosmos. Perhaps then when they return to earth, they could actually work for the benefit of the people of earth, rather than wasting their term in office like yet another tribal savage obsessing over petty nationalistic agenda.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“How to Train Your Head of State (The Sonnet)

We shall achieve more by
blasting politicians into space,
than by blasting satellites
to other planets.

They'll leave earth as warmongers,
and return as peacemakers.
They'll leave earth as mindless apes,
and return as mindful humans.

In the middle of absolute vacuum,
mind grows fond of the warmth of home.
Fondness born of existential crisis,
never subsides even after you return
to your comfort zone.

When you are floating in space untethered,
each speck of earthland is equally priceless.
Then you'll realize the fallacy of borders -
Nation-nonsense will fade,
and earth will be your primary sense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“We shall achieve more by blasting politicians into space, than by blasting satellites to other planets. They'll leave earth as warmongers, and return as peacemakers. They'll leave earth as mindless apes, and return as mindful humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets