Peaceful Coexistence Quotes

“I'll tell you plainly - I don't believe in a supreme being, but if you do, and your belief helps you be a better human, I'll fight for your belief till my last breath. But if your belief is your excuse for intolerance and fanaticism, then you're my child, and I am your judgment.

The same goes for those intellectual buffoons who take logic as licence to condescension. Militant atheists and religious fundamentalists are both animal retards - they belong in a museum of medieval and modern artifacts, not on civilized streets.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Faith can be unholy,
science can be inhuman,
none depends on the tool,
all depends on the person.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Heart doesn't care about consensus of the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“You don't have to agree with a person completely, to love them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Being right is not necessarily the mark of goodness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Sonnet 1359

I know people who use God
as excuse for hate and war.
I know people who use God
as inspiration for love and peace.

I know people who use Science
as excuse to be cold and inhuman.
I know people who use Science
as means to be warm and responsible.

It's neither God nor Science,
that causes coldness and war.
In the hands of a selfish ape,
Science and God are equally impotent.

But when it's a responsible human
that wields either God or Science,
You can rest assured of one thing,
nothing can dent their humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“It's neither God nor Science,
that causes coldness and war.
In the hands of a selfish ape,
Science and God are equally impotent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Ardent critics of religion are just as animal as fundamentalists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Close your eyes, turn off facts and fiction; There's an alley leading from my heart to yours.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I'll tell you plainly - I don't believe in a supreme being, but if you do, and your belief helps you be a better human, I'll fight for your belief till my last breath. But if your belief is your excuse for intolerance and fanaticism, then you're my child, and I am your judgment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Kindness is intention absolute,
Goodness is belief absolute.
Service is wisdom absolute,
Humanity is education absolute.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Be a Muslim, be a Christian,
Be an Atheist, or be a martian!
None of these means nothing at all,
till we're each other's emancipation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“We don't need to believe in a grand design to be good people, but we do need to be good people to create a grand design. It's neither about atheism, nor about the so-called religiousness - rather it's about plain, ordinary humanness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“Some people need God, others don't feel the need for it, for whatever reason. But the fact of the matter is, even those who do not believe in God, occasionally end up talking to some sort of fictitious figure, such as a loved one who has passed away. And what's wrong with that?

Personal fiction is a psychological necessity of the individual – hence, a right - why can't we simply accept it as such! Why do we have to diss another person for not believing in the same kind of fiction that we believe in! It is time we become an aid to each other's light, not an impediment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Personal fiction is a psychological necessity of the individual – hence, a right - why can't we simply accept it as such!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Memorize some creeds, and you're religious.
Memorize some facts, and you're intellectual.
The former is religion of the old world jungle,
The latter is religion of the new world jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Tolerate no hate,
Moderate no help.
Segregate no shelf,
Alienate no sect.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“No belief is inferior, diverse beliefs are diverse means of self-preservation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“The believer is not to turn atheist, the atheist is not to turn a believer. Earth is a big place with room for all, if only we could make our heart a bit wider!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Many minds, many lanes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Dogma deserted is harmony harvested.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I grew up celebrating Diwali, eating fruitcake on the 25th, and waking up to the call of azaan. If I'm devout anything, it's a devout human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Reason is our ark, love is our compass.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Tolerance is not a faculty, tolerance is consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“First you grow out of religion, then you grow out of atheism, finally you become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“There is life outside the cage (Sonnet 2240)

First you grow out of religion,
then you grow out of atheism,
finally you become human.

First you grow out of hot dogma,
then you grow out of cold logic,
finally you become human.

First you grow out of nation,
then you grow out of narrative,
finally you become human.

However, it's alright,
if you can't outgrow it all -
just acknowledge life outside your cage,
to be almost human is still enough human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“When some poor soul is wounded, it's unimportant what you believe, science or the sacred, what matters is that you rush to them with first aid. To be the first aid in someone's wounds, that's the highest sanctity, as well as the right science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Right to leave religion is just as fundamental as right to religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper