Top 500 Abhijit Naskar Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “If you want to be an extremist, be extreme in your acts of kindness – if you want to be a fundamentalist, practice the fundamental principle of acceptance in every walk of your life – if you want to be an intellectual, use your intellect to improve human condition.”

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452. “Students are not to pursue institutes, they are to pursue understanding.”

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453. “There’s no such thing as a genuine psychic – there are psychics who con others and those who con themselves.”

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454. “A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

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455. “Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.”

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456. “Our mistakes rewire our brain and open up new gateways of perception.”

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457. “The agonizing flames of misery can turn the human heart inside your skull into a breeding ground for virtues.”

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458. “Prayers and wishes are worthless my friend, if they are not accompanied by tangible human actions.”

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459. “Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.”

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460. “Without revolution, civilization comes to halt, because with complacency arrives indifference, and with indifference comes the fall of civilization.”

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461. “Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.”

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462. “Love opens the most impossible gates in the world.”

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463. “Being in peace doesn’t mean absence of misery, it means absence of conflict in the mind.”

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464. “Before the invention of printing press, the problem was, lack of information, and now due to the rise of social media, it is too much information – the former leads to mental starvation and the latter to mental obesity.”

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465. “No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.”

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466. “Countless souls are starving to death around the world, yet you keep wasting heaps of money on alcohol, cigarettes and cheap thrills – how can you be so nonchalant, my friend!”

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467. “Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia.”

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468. “Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher.”

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469. “The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the weak, the strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you all with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity.”

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470. “Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.”

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471. “One person’s sacrifice makes millions wake up from their sleep of indifference.”

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472. “Be strong, but don’t let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people’s weaknesses.”

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473. “One of these individuals, whose apparently divine subjective experience of transcendence led to the birth of one of the relatively modern religions of planet earth, was a man named Nanak. In an effort to diminish the contemporary conflicts between the Hindus and the Muslims, he ended up becoming the founding patriarch of yet another circle of religious ideologies – Sikhism – a child religion born from the wedlock between Hinduism and Islam.”

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474. “The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.”

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475. “Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.”

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476. “People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the Jew, a Muslim to the Muslim, a Hindu to the Hindu, an atheist to the atheist, but the brightest nightmare to the fundamentalist.”

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477. “The world doesn’t need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.”

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478. “There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.”

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479. “Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.”

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480. “The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you’ll have of that situation in the long run.”

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481. “The human must become the saint and the messiah to his or her part of the global society, and having done so, no obscurity or discrimination shall have the power to raise its poisonous fangs even during the darkest days of misfortune.”

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482. “Organizations can’t bring peace, for peace begins with the individual – it begins with you. And so long as you rely on these organizations to bring peace in your surroundings, peace shall remain merely an issue for the celebrities to exploit as a means to attract more followers.”

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483. “All stains of the society are born in the mind, and so is the detergent to clean them off.”

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484. “No book on this planet can give you the description of terms like religion, spirituality, divinity unless you discover it within the realm of your own mind.”

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485. “Art is the flow of potential through human hands, rising from the deepest fathoms of the human soul, that remain otherwise inaccessible to the world, as well as the self.”

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486. “Good deeds through the day makes you sleep well at night.”

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487. “Science in its truest form is and will always remain compatible with human rights and equality.”

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488. “When the world is partying, I’m working – when the world is on dates and getting laid, I’m working – when the world is on holidays, I’m working – when the world is celebrating the festivals, I’m working – for humankind to have a healthy and prosperous life, someone’s gotta work.”

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489. “If humanity is in misery, it may not be my fault, but if I die leaving humanity with the same amount of misery, then it is my fault.”

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490. “The goodness of humankind is predicated upon the goodness of the individual.”

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491. “If you have faith in all the trinities and apostles in the world, and still have no faith in yourself, there is no salvation for you.”

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492. “Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.”

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493. “I dream of the humane dawn when we shan’t be able to fill our bellies in comfort, while other folks go hungry – or sleep in warm beds, when others shiver in the cold – when we shan’t be able to kneel or thank god for blessings before our shining altars, while our fellow beings anywhere in the world are kneeling either physical or spiritual subjection.”

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494. “Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.”

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495. “Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no difference between primitive man and modern man.”

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496. “The human heart is too grand to be wasted in the gutter of cultural exclusivity.”

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497. “When people are rude to us, even if we didn’t do them any harm, we may feel awful, but we must try to not let our awfulness create hatred in us towards them, because once we give in to hate, it won’t stop there.”

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498. “A philanderer cannot be a parent – a parent cannot be a philanderer.”

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499. “You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.”

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500. “Civilization without responsibility, is no civilization – humanity without responsibility, is no humanity – existence without responsibility, is no existence.”

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