Ain't Enough to Look Human Quotes

“A great many people confuse attention with admiration, they think a stunt is an achievement and misbehavior a declaration of independence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“I don't care about your religious belief or disbelief, all I care about is your behavior with others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“A progressive society is a self-scrutinizing society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Beyond fear there is clarity - beyond weakness there is victory - beyond insecurity there is life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“You can sit in a dark room and think of light all you want, but that won't change the reality of the darkness around, but step up to light a candle and suddenly the dark reality turns into one filled with light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“It's not enough to shout about equality, we must feel it, mean it and act on it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Power doesn't mean to control people, real power is to bring happiness in their lives.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“The less your needs, the stronger your integrity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“I am not bound by law, for my law is my accountability towards society, which itself makes me do what's right and best for the society. I am not here to be guided by the illusive societal paradigms, legal or any other, I am here to point those paradigms in a humane direction, so that they can recognize their shortcomings and evolve into something better. But if ever the dark day comes when I commit an inhumanity, I will sentence myself to death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“If a billionaire really starts doing actual humanitarian work in their fullest capacity, they would stop being billionaires.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Humans without borders, that's what the world needs - beings of conscience and courage, with no rigidity of religion, gender, nationality, or any other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“If you do a few good deeds and then say, that's it, I've completed my daily quota of good deeds, then that's not goodness, but a mockery of goodness. When a river flows does it ever count the villages it passes by and then say that's it, I have completed my daily quota of providing people water - it doesn't, it simply keeps flowing, without keeping count of how many people are blessed by its water. Be like the river my friend and do good without keeping count.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Instincts are older, but thoughts are recent, that's why instincts are more powerful than thoughts - that's why it takes great will power to express a thought through action, while instincts come so easily. However, if we continue practicing our thoughts long enough, eventually the instincts that hold power over us will turn powerless. And this my friend, ought to be the next step of our evolution, and that's why it's no longer merely a matter of natural selection, it's what I hereby dub "sapient selection", that is the process of determining the path of our evolution ourselves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Discrimination is the mark of a savage, assimilation is the mark of a sage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Whenever you have some extra money and you think of buying something fancy, ask yourself, do you really need that product, or are you just trying to fill the holes in your life with more possessions? If your conscience tells you that you don't really need it, then use that money to empower a small local business in some way, or perhaps raise some funds among friends and help someone in your neighborhood to set up a business or use those funds to fix the problems of your neighborhood. Find out where the money is needed most and use it there.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Humanity A to Z (The Poem)

A for assimilation is the way,
B for bigotry must be thrown away.
C for conscience when at play,
D for delusions all run away.
E for equality once brought to life,
F for fears can no longer survive.
G for greed when let not to thrive,
H for humility won't be caught in strife.
I for integrity mustn't be compromised,
J for justice will then prevail alright.
K for kindness must never run tight,
L for life can then be lived upright.
M for mercy can never be forgotten,
N for naivety keeps you from being rotten.
O for oppression when is begotten,
P for patience must be overridden.
Q for questions when let fly,
R for rigidity will weaken and die.
S for serenity will go awry,
T for tradition if obeyed dry.
U for unity is our supreme mission,
V for vanity leads only to destruction.
W for wholeness is our salvation,
X for xenophobia is no civilization.
Y for yield we must never to separation,
Z for zeal we mustn't lose for ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Take a glass of water, now tell me, is it Christian water, or Jewish water, or Islamic water or Atheist water. It's just water. A human ought to be like that water, whose purpose is to quench the thirst of humans, not of any specific religion, culture or gender, but all humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Human brain is the supreme creator of all fortune.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“If we don’t give back to the society, we'll die of obesity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Neither fortune, nor opportunity, nor ancestry, nor wealth - nothing determines your destiny - there is only one question that determines your destiny - will you give up after coming all this way?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Do you know what strength is - forgetting sleep, romance, money I keep working without rest to unite the humans, that's my strength - a single mother working day and night so her child can have a bright future, that's her strength - a street vendor working hard since dawn for his family, that's his strength. Do you have such a strength of your own? Your ancestry, your family money, your material possessions - putting aside all these, what is your own true strength?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Only by recognizing our mistakes, our shortcomings, can we be sure of our strengths.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“We learn more by being wrong than by being right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“The biggest mistake is to make no mistake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Human is not a species - human is a promise - a promise to never stop growing - a promise to never stop learning from our mistakes - a promise to acknowledge our shortcomings and sharpen our strengths.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Human brain is the supreme creator of all fortune. It is the biggest miracle of nature which makes all other miracles possible.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Fortune is slave to the determined and master to the weakling.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“I am a living representation of my species - I am not owned by any one culture, but all cultures live through me - I am not owned by any one belief system, but all belief systems are part of me - I am not owned by any one school of thought, but all schools of thought are born in me. However, at the same time I must admit, I have more ignorance than knowledge - I have had more failures than successes - I have had more impediments than aids - but my sight has always been wider than my abilities permit - and that's the reason why I exist as a beacon of universalism on the face of earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human