Civilized Beings Quotes

“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.”
― Dale Breckenridge Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”
― Toba Beta

“Sapient or Savage (The Sonnet)

To be or not to be,
That is not the question.
To be human or stay animal,
That is the question.
Human and animal,
What is the difference!
To be animal is to be selfish,
To be human is to go beyond the self.
There's more to life than us and them,
There's more to life than loss and gain.
There's more to life than money and fame,
There's more to life than dogmatic lanes.
To be or not to be, that is not the question.
Be sapient or stay savage, it's your decision.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 65

Doomsday is not when the earth collapses,
Nor is it the contagion of a deadly virus.
Doomsday is when humans forget humanity,
As such all of us are doomsday descendants.
There is no such thing as fall of humanity,
For humankind never rose to civilization.
Our ancestors were savages with bow and arrow,
We are modern savages with nuclear ammunition.
Each of us are raised as an incarnate of doom,
Through our veins flow the germs of selfishness.
Everybody talks of peace without realizing,
The opposite of war is not peace, it's unselfishness.
So stop worrying about the fall of civilization.
Live as human so that there actually is a civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Civilization is synonym for nonsectarianism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“There is no greater contentment than the feeling of victory over your own savagery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“I am human, and I must bear all the responsibility that goes along with it, even if it means putting myself in harm’s way.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“The sun will never set on the empire of human beings, so long as they are humans and not colonial creeplings.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“None of our ancestors gave us any particular reason to be proud of them. Except for a rare few, they were all morons and they built of a world of moronity. That is more reason for us to be the first civilized ancestors to our descendants who are just born or yet to be born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“The first civilized being is not the one who wore a suit, but the one who stood up and said, I'll correct myself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“All that is civilized starts with me. I am the world, I am almighty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Belief sustains a person, but behavior sustains a society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Every life is obvious, for every life is born selfish. You for one be the unobvious, be the line between human 'n rubbish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“When inhumanity is committed on others, we turn our back, when it's committed on us, we compromise. That's how the world works, nay, that's how we work - we the so-called civilized beings. What civilized! What sentient! What sapient! We haven't even developed the spine to stand up to oppression and dehumanization! Then how on earth could we call ourselves civilized, sentient, and sapient!”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Possess this world with your oneness, before it possesses you with its selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“A just human is a universal human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“Civilization is Not A Place (The Sonnet)

No matter who likes it not,
Say Gay anyway.
Compliance to discrimination,
Is the coward's way.
A true leader once said, women belong in,
All places where decisions are being made.
I say, fudge it all,
Women just belong, period.
They say, they don't want their kids,
To be hurt learning history.
I say, if learning history makes you hurt,
You are in dire need of therapy.
Civilization begins when we acknowledge our primitiveness.
Civilization is not a place, it's a people, it's a process.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

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

“Animal life is beautiful for there you find truthfulness, but there is nothing more disgusting than an animal pretending to lead a human life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“The animal that pretends to be human is no human, but the animal who acknowledges and tames their innate animality is the first human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Selfishness is still the first nature of humanity, and kindness second. The day kindness becomes our first nature and selfishness second, that day I'll call it a civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulldozer on Duty

“Sapiens Impossible (The Sonnet)

If my existence isn't impossible,
I do not wanna exist.
If my legacy isn't impossible,
I do not want to live.
If my breath doesn't breathe life,
I don't wanna take another breath.
If my veins don't invigorate another,
I have no need for such useless veins.
If my heart isn't proof of love impossible,
May this be the last time my heart beats.
If this being isn't the bridge of oneness,
May the bugs have a feast on some good eats.
I don't wanna live as a weakling of the jungle.
If I must live I'll live as sapiens impossible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“We don't build civilization by erecting one sky-scraper after another. We build civilization by wiping out one discrimination after another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“We are civilized not when we don't behave uncivilized. We are civilized when we know when we behave uncivilized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Sign of life is evolution,
Sign of death is rigidity.
Sign of human is integration,
Sign of animal is exclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“In attempting to become more civilized, we enter the Middle Ages.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“We are all refugees inside our mind - a sentient being trying to escape its animal past towards a human future, and in doing so, we set the foundation for a civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Ancestry is Garbage (The Sonnet)

DNA test may reveal your ancestry,
But there is no DNA test for character.
IQ may reveal deficit in logical aptitude,
There's no IQ test for excellence or genius.

If bloodline dictated destiny,
We'd still be dangling from trees.
Not that we've done much better,
But at least there is possibility.

In the end we are all monkeys,
We all come from the jungle.
Question is, have we conquered
the jungle that lurks in our heart,
have we risen yet above the animal!

Ancestry is garbage, IQ is useless,
Living humans don't rely on such nonsense.
Heart, brain, backbone, these make who we are,
Everything else is mythology of the savages.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets