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Sleepless for Society

Abhijit Naskar

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Those who do not appreciate the soldiers and instead pompously talk about peace, should try to live a single day without the soldiers.”

“Once you learn to question, you will start to learn.”

“You may come or not to walk beside me, I won't stand still in silence while the oceans burn and the sun turns dark - I will either right the wrongs or perish in the attempt - and even if I burn to ashes in trying to humanize my surroundings, those ashes of mine will still smoke inclusion, equality and humaneness - I am not born a human to crawl as an indifferent vermin, I am born a human to embrace death for the values, the principles, the virtues that ought to be the foundation of human civilization - I am sleepless and I will stay sleepless till all the children of earth can sleep in peace with a full stomach and a happy heart, without worrying about guns and bombs, without worrying about prejudice and phobia, without worrying about discrimination and deportation - I will stay sleepless till the whole world becomes a family, not in theory, not in philosophy, not in argument, not even in futuristic vision, but in reality and practice.”

“When love awakens so will the world, for love is the seed of civilization.”

“Try a crime you end a criminal, treat an environment you end crime.”

“The purpose of law is to punish inhumanity, whereas the purpose of armed forces is to prevent inhumanity”

“I prefer the ground over the pedestal.”

“I haven't come for science, I have come for love.”

“Everything that's worth anything in the world has been achieved by the inquiring mind full of questions, not by those full of rituals and prejudice.”

“Better a character without fancy clothes than fancy clothes without character.”

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