When Veins Ignite Quotes

“If we don't have a place for nature in our heart, how can we expect nature to have a place for us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“The history of the world is a whitewashed history, where great many facts are distorted to maintain white supremacy – such as Columbus discovering America or Gandhi liberating India – Gandhi didn’t liberate India, Subhas Chandra Bose did and Columbus never even set foot on America.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Neither Christ, nor Krishna, nor Superman,
No imagination can rescue humanity.
Each of us is the only helpline,
Human salvation is human responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Woke and cancel culture are both signs of a judgmental culture, not a mentally mature one. A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has not advanced much from the days when the white people used to own slaves. Let me tell you this, if you are kind, if you are compassionate, if you hold no discrimination towards people whatsoever, then you have no reason to worry about whether you are woke enough.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Humanity is the highest form of love there is, and love needs no lobby, label or ideology, for love itself is everything that is human about us - we are either living in it, enveloped in its wholeness or we are analyzing it with intellect from outside while dying for a taste of it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“A world where you cannot even speak to another person without worrying about what they are going to think of you, has not advanced much from the days when white people used to own slaves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Seek no reward, seek no applause, just keep on walking in the course of your cause.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“There are too many people working to better the lives of those who already have more than they need, yet those who are in need of real help spend each day with no hope or help to speak of - why my friend - why - they are waiting for you - they are wailing for you - don't you hear them - don't you hear their tears dropping on the lifeless soil beneath their feet! You worry about philosophical questions like, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound - yet you pay no attention to real questions of life and death that actually require your intervention more than any philosophical question in the world! Why - I ask you again - why - why is it that philosophy, technology and argumentation have more grip over your psyche than the actual troubles of the people! Don't answer me - just think - think and when you have thought enough, shred all shallow philosophical pomp and rush right away to the helpless, the forgotten, the destitute as the real, practical answer to their life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Slavery of senses is the oldest form of slavery, and once we break this slavery, we'll conquer all inhumanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Poor is not the one who has no money, poor is the one who has no purpose.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Where you need to be calm, you burst out in rage, and where you need to be on fire, you remain indifferent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“The history of the world is a whitewashed history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Wenn wir keinen platz für die natur in unseren herzen haben, wie können wir erwarten, natur hätte einen platz für uns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“La percepción es 99 % estereotipos y 1 % verdad.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Si no tenemos un lugar para la naturaleza en nuestro corazón, ¿cómo podemos esperar que la naturaleza tenga un lugar para nosotros?”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Popular belief considers Christopher Columbus as some sort of hero, while in reality he was a murderer. While the world admires him as a brave explorer, all this brainless buffoon did was sail around the Caribbean and slaughtered innocent natives who greeted him with nothing but hospitality. You don't discover a land where people are already living. On top of that, when someone invades their land and starts looting, pillaging and slaughtering, he is neither brave, nor an explorer, he's just a petty thief and brut.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Wake up from indifference and be the final solution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Society is built by determination, not designation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“If you want to lead, help others to live.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“My ideas won't give you comfort, they won't make you feel good about yourself, they won't make you calm, they will only make you restless, they'll only make you sleepless – for the world, for the society, for humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Om vi inte har en plats för naturen i vårt hjärta, hur kan vi förvänta oss att naturen ska ha en plats för oss!”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Destiny is the child of action.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“If you want growth in life and in society, you must scale back the brakes on your desires.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Great civilization demands great sacrifice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Our capacities of humanity may not be as powerful as our innate primitiveness, but with each act of that humanity in our daily walks of life we make those capacities stronger, thus heading towards a future where those capacities of humanity will indeed be more powerful than our primitiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“When it comes to behavior, there is not one, but two types of behavior, one that is instinctual - the kind of behavior that helped our ancestors survive the harshness of the jungle, then there is the behavior of a civilized being - a behavior that is driven by thought and warmth - the behavior of a caring and conscientious human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“I have nothing to give my friend, so I give you my life to amplify your might”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Selflessness and sanity,
Let these flow through your veins.
Offer up your nerves and bones,
As the world’s unity lanes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Law of the jungle is self-preservation. Law of society is collective ascension.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Perception är 99 procent stereotyper och 1 procent sanning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation