Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race QUOTES

1 " The world would be a rather boring place if all we had is evidence, if all we had is logic. We need a bit of the illogical to cherish the sweetness of life. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

2 " The wellbeing of the heart of humanity does not
rely on practicality, logicality and factuality
alone. Fiction is needed, placebo is needed, and
you know what else is needed - a whole lot of
impractical and absurd unselfishness. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

3 " Sacrifice makes one king or queen, not bloodline. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

4 " Sciencelessness and senselessness are all okay, as long as they don't lead to heartlessness. Being good people is what being human is about, it has nothing to do with either faith or facts. Facts may help life, faith may help life, but none of it makes a person good on their own, unless the person genuinely has an active spirit of goodwill.

It's the person that makes science good, it's the person that makes faith good, not the other way around. A good scientist does good with their science, a good preacher does good with their faith. It all depends on the person - it depends on the person's heart, not on the science or on the faith.

Marie Curie was a scientist, but what makes her a great scientist is not her dedication to science, which is quite common in many scientists, but her indomitable and rather radical drive to use science to serve humankind, so much so that instead of monetizing on her hard-fought discovery of radium, she gave it away – she never filed a patent for it that is.

So to those aiming to be scientists, I say, if you are brilliant in head but cold at heart, you'd make an average scientist, but if there is warmth in your heart, you'd make a great scientist, even if you are average in head.

'Cause, that my friend, is what science is about. That is what intellect is about. And the same applies to every single tool with the potential for good. Your field of work doesn't make you a good person, if you are a good person, you make that field a good field. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

5 " It's the cold and dead who don't suffer. The living are bound to suffer, for it's through the suffering that healing comes, it's through the suffering that character comes. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

6 " Simpler the outfit, wiser the outlook. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

7 " Ripped jeans and twenty dollar shirt, that's how we'll change the world. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

8 " We shall never have a world without errors, but the world that we do have can be a beautiful place if we just had the willingness to correct our errors. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

9 " High rise buildings and space exploration don't make a lifeform civilized, high rise character and heart exploration do. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

10 " Too many people wear suits and boots,
In order to cover up the filth within.
Those who have their character intact,
Care not whether their clothes are shinin'. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

11 " For one freakin’ moment, let us be nothing, let us have nothing, let us need nothing, instead let us just be - no name, sect, heritage or tradition - just being a being with infinite possibilities, instead of defining ourselves based on the habits and heritage of our dead ancestors. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

12 " There is no such thing as constitutional monarchy, you can either have constitution or monarchy. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

13 " There is not much difference between an ideological dingus and septicemic fungus, both cause nothing but death and disease in society. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

14 " Call it India or Bharat, but not Hindustan. Because no matter the intellectual stupidity of linguistic origin, in practice calling India Hindustan is like still calling humankind mankind. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

15 " A heart measurable is no heart at all. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

16 " Sensible Love Sonnet

A heart measurable is no heart at all,
For a heart that expands not, is dead.
Love sensible is no love at all,
Love that makes sense is love of the dead.
Raise your head, reach out with heart,
And the whole world will fall at your feet.
Better senseless in love than loveless in logic,
Heartiness is no forte of the intellectual elite.
It is far better to fall in love and suffer,
Than to spend your life as a farmer awaiting rain.
Scars of love are not scars but the elixir of life,
Life without such suffering is a life gone in vain.
Regret not that you suffer in love, regret if you don't.
I'd give up all my brains for a moment of love's angst. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

17 " We are an unfinished masterpiece of Mother Nature. You know why she didn't finish it? Because she wanted us to cast the deciding vote in how we turn out to be. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

18 " To my civilized ears, Long Live the Queen or King sounds as nauseating as Heil Hitler. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

19 " You may have learnt in school that science is all about the evidence. Let me correct that notion. Science is not about the evidence, it is about the humane application of the evidence in the uplift of society. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

20 " Tell people who you are, without telling them who you are. "

― Abhijit Naskar , Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race