Humanist Quotes

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, which operates in congruence to our vibrations, I think it is more important to be one with each other. If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us. Yet if she is sick, it is because mankind is sick and separated. And if our vibrations are bad, she reacts to it, as do all living creatures.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly

“The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Hand of human is the hand of god.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Human kneels to no ICE or SS (Sonnet 2200)

Human bows to no flag or crown,
human claims no jeweled throne -
rejoicing in ruin of reputation,
human stands unbent and alone.

Bound to no creed or clan,
human kneels before no stone -
every place where hate looms,
human sings in flesh and bone.

Human kneels to no ICE or SS,
human fears no dictatorial decree -
where chains are sold as holy relic,
human comes alive, roaring to be free.

Human walks not in luxury suits,
but in dusty rags of the street -
human feasts with homeless folks,
and dies happy at their feet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Bound to no creed or clan,
human kneels before no stone -
every place where hate looms,
human sings in flesh and bone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Science is philosophy is theology is poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Faith is a private pill, not public law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“To humanize divinity is to divinize humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“For every church, mosque, and temple you build, if you're not building ten schools and hospitals, to provide affordable education and healthcare, you are serving none but your own delusions, for holiness unfolds in human welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I have no problem with you shouting, that your religion is the only true religion, at most, I'll ignore you like a raving lunatic - but the moment you start persecuting others, your lunacy becomes a medical emergency.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“God is not a being, God is a behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Faith is A Private Pill (Sonnet)

Faith is a private pill, not public law;
belief is a personal mechanism, not a mandate.
I am not a religious figure, but a human one;
only gospel I offer is the gospel of tolerance.

I stand not to dehumanize, but to dedogmatize,
yet to entitled bigots it always feels dehumanizing.
In my world, science is philosophy is theology is poetry,
beyond the grasp of your fractured compartmentalizing.

Ivory tower of belief and ivory tower of logic,
are both equally antithetical to life's delicacies.
We gotta bring belief down from the sky into the soil,
and logic down from the tower onto the streets.

Live deeply, love madly, indulge moderately;
remember, vengeance is not power, but paralysis.
Love is not an emotion, love is existence;
tolerance is not a faculty, it's consciousness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I don't outsource, I am the source of holiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In a civilized world I could spend my days writing mushy poetry, sparing the headache of human rights. But alas, that is not the case, hence, I'm restless, sleepless, vacationless, in kindling the human light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

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

“I decide what I am,
and I decide the parameters of what I am -
for example, I can be a monk and still fall in love,
just like, I can be a muslim poet,
and still consider the koran to be flawed -

I can be a theologian of any faith, and consider
all the scriptures to be a mix of good and bad -
my mind is the measure, not convention;
life is my constitution, not tradition.

This is how I created whatever I've created,
not in defiance of convention, but indifference -
I built my universe, aloof from foolish fractures,
to men of ritual it's a terrible sacrilege.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I'm vast enough to contain the world, asylum pills don't work on pilgrim brains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Flags are the poison, cosmos is my kin - I am no stereotype, I am the Prototype Human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“How to Tell A Human (Naskar Test)

How to tell a human from ape, when both look the same?

Look for the creature that considers everyone outside their religion a heathen, and everyone outside their culture a heretic - that's a textbook ape.

Now look for the being that finds the same human spirit in every culture, religion and nation - that right there, is a rare human specimen.

How to tell a human from robot, when both look the same?

Look for the contraption that considers everything outside logic, without value - that's a lifeless robot.

Look for the soul that knows when to, and when not to, apply logic in life and society - that's a living human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Mind built on tradition is too small for truth, world built on doctrine is too dead to do good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Real spirituality isn't scented with lavender, but soaked in sweat of struggle for equality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“With evolutionary power comes ethical duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Stand Human Anyway (Sonnet 2262)

If Jesus didn't exist,
Moses didn't exist,
Mohammed didn't exist,
Vyas and Sid didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as divine,
just as alive, just as human.

If the bible didn't exist,
koran didn't exist,
torah didn't exist,
and vedas didn't exist,
I'll still stand just as sacred,
just as aware, just as human.

If I didn't exist, my writings didn't exist,
stand human anyway, within you is the ore.
Don't outsource, you are the source,
feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“If Jesus didn't exist, Moses didn't exist, Mohammed didn't exist, Vyas and Sid didn't exist, I'll still stand just as divine, just as alive, just as human. If I didn't exist, my writings didn't exist, stand human anyway, within you is the ore. Don't outsource, you are the source, feet rooted in soil, not shackled in folklore.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Biology 101: there is no angel, only good human - there is no paradise, only good people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Larger than tribe, larger than time, I am Detonation of The First Multicultural Civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Patriot beyond nation,
religious beyond religion,
cultured beyond culture -
that's a complete human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat