Top 500 Abhijit Naskar Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

152. “Imagine me on my knees in front of you – bowing before your feet – and I say – I beg you, break the cycle now.”

— Abhijit Naskar

153. “Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals – it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

154. “Progress requires sacrifice of security.”

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155. “I am not here to entertain you. I am here to make you think.”

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156. “Blind nationalism is a threat to every nation on this planet.”

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157. “The word is not the thing.”

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158. “In the hands of corrupt citizens democracy gives rise to a corrupt nation.”

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159. “Kindness kindles kinship and kinship kindles a sense of community.”

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160. “Your perception is the world’s perception, your realization is the world’s realization.”

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161. “A life saved is a family saved.”

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162. “In any war, except that for freedom from oppression, victory of any nation, is the defeat of all nations, because each war comes at the cost of lives, in the name of the same old tribal loyalty.”

— Abhijit Naskar

163. “Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness.”

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164. “If a criminal becomes a politician, it’s the fault of the citizens, not the system, and if a system keeps failing to oust the criminals from politics, that too is the fault of the citizens.”

— Abhijit Naskar

165. “Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. Humans should hold it up in their hands every single day of their lives and say from the deepest fathoms of their soul – “I am free – to think – to speak – to act – the way a real, novel, civilized being should – my ancestors couldn’t, but I can, and my children will”.”

— Abhijit Naskar

166. “They say if you don’t bend, you break. I say it’s better to break for a purpose than to bend for nothing.”

— Abhijit Naskar

167. “It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.”

— Abhijit Naskar

168. “Today’s humans do not need terrorists to disrupt peace in the world – they are doing it themselves quite well.”

— Abhijit Naskar

169. “Making love is not magical, if there is no love.”

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170. “Change in the world begins with change in your neighborhood. And change in your neighborhood begins with change in you – a change from indifference to responsibility – a change from purpose-less survival to purpose-full living.”

— Abhijit Naskar

171. “Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.”

— Abhijit Naskar

172. “Promises that fade in time, are no promises – vows that lose honor in time, are no vows – love that wears off in time, is no love.”

— Abhijit Naskar

173. “It’s not the institutes that make the students great, it’s the students that make an institute great.”

— Abhijit Naskar

174. “Sexual intimacy is not the destination, it is the path – the path that leads to mental union.”

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175. “Start small and keep going.”

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176. “A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss.”

— Abhijit Naskar

177. “The problem is not religion or God. The actual problem is authoritarianism, mixed with the desire to angrily impose one’s personal apparently idealistic beliefs on others.”

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178. “The greatest pleasure is in bearing pain for others.”

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179. “People fight over religion, because they don’t understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books are not religion my friend. Real religion is realization of the Self.”

— Abhijit Naskar

180. “The transcendental state of Absolute Oneness sets the human mind free.”

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181. “A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christian who goes to Church every Sunday, and yet never talks to his or her neighbor with a smile on the face, is no religious person. On the other hand, an outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred times more religious than all the theoretical preachers of all religions combined.”

— Abhijit Naskar

182. “Everyone can love you when you have everything, but one who loves you when you have nothing, that’s the person who truly cares for you.”

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183. “Monogamy is not a choice, it is a responsibility of a genuine human.”

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184. “The best kind of existence is to exist for others.”

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185. “If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if your ethnicity is lost, nothing is lost – but if your character is lost, then you are more lost than Donald Trump.”

— Abhijit Naskar

186. “Injustice won’t destroy our world, indifference to injustice will.”

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187. “What right does a society have to call itself human, if it does not act like one, instead keeps quarreling and slaughtering in the name of the petty differences that they themselves have created!”

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188. “No god is coming to save you – no messiah is coming to save you – all the gods and all the messiahs that can save our world are already here – they are us – each one of us – so, open your eyes o mighty lords of time, and cleanse this world of all barbarian impurities, with the force of your bold, brave and humane actions.”

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189. “I am a monk at heart – a scientist at brain – a philosopher at conscience.”

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190. “They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.”

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191. “Injustice rises only in the absence of humanity.”

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192. “Once you attain the state of Absolute Oneness or Non-Duality, you become one of those spiritual legends that humanity so gloriously venerates as the founding fathers of religion.”

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193. “It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.”

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194. “Beyond culture, beyond tradition, beyond all dogmas and doctrines, there lies a beautiful valley full with real liberty and real harmony – in that valley, diversity is no cause for discrimination or hatred, rather it provides colors to the collective life of humanity as one family – in that valley, the best creed is to have no creed – the best path is to have no path – the best ideology is to have no ideology.”

— Abhijit Naskar

195. “For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”

— Abhijit Naskar

196. “Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.”

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197. “Freedom is not the mark of progress, responsibility is.”

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198. “When a civil servant or politician acts out of self-interest, it’s called corruption, but when a citizen does it, it’s called public interest.”

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199. “Religion and politics together is the most dangerous of all combinations, when that religion, is not the true religion of kindness and love, but the religion of books, doctrines and priests.”

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200. “All the terrorism in the world that fester in the name of religion, are in fact not religious in nature, rather they are socio-political. Their roots are not religion, but socio-political condition. Religion is only used as a divine tool of authoritative justification in the search of absolution.”

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