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“Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.”
― Al Franken

“The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole”
― Sunday Adelaja

“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American

“There is one kind of charity common enough among usâ€� It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow beingâ€� [However] what advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.”
― Jamsetji Tata

“Nations are not handed perfect, they are perfected by hand.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 91

Citizens are the alpha, citizens are the omega.
Whatever good is possible, it comes from the citizens.
Citizens are the creator, citizens are the ravager.
Citizens make the autocrats, citizens can crush them.
Citizens are the cause, citizens are the effect.
There is no destiny, only determination of the citizens.
Citizens are the worshipper, citizens are the worshipped.
There is no religion, only humanity of the citizens.
Citizens are the gospel, citizens are commandments.
When citizens command with conscience, corruption falls.
Citizens are the altar, citizens are the idol.
When the citizens come down to the streets, dictators fall.
Autocrats and dictators rule because the citizens allow it.
Once the citizens wake up from hibernation,
it's time for their last wish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Representation is but silent regress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Great nations are not born great. Great nations are made great!”
― Benjamin Suulola

“We can change the destiny of our nation through the Power of making right choices at this very right time.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“What's the point in having a government that cannot make food, housing, education and healthcare free to every citizen! Every citizen must ask this question - every statesperson must ask this question - every head of state must ask this question. This oughta be the prime directive of the government handbook.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“What kind of a moron thinks that a nation grows great by developing the military capacity to destroy another nation!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“What kind of a moron thinks that a nation grows great by developing the military capacity to destroy another nation! Yet that is the first thing you think of when you hear the term of patriotism. It's time we rise above these outdated notions and customs, and learn to find home in people, not places â€� in beings, not borders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

“Good engineer designs gadgets, great engineer designs society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I am numb with confusion and horror at how the corridors of power are inspired by errors, exaggerations and lies to mislead the entire nation. We should be under no illusion the political will to fix what is broken is fully evaporated.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“If I Were Head of State (The Sonnet)

If I were the head of state,
my first act in government will be,
to dissolve the government,
and redistribute all powers of society,
to experts in their respective fields.

Civil servants and experts run a nation anyway,
While brainless politicians take all the credit.
Time to give credit and power where they're due,
Putting an end to the circus of representatives.

Instead of trading one incompetent fool for another,
We gotta rotate the civil servants office to office.
In a civilized democracy, civilians are the law,
Never you forget that, never let anyone forget it!

If I were the head of state, that is the end of state.
Dictatorships empower leaders, democracy empowers citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Dictatorships empower leaders, democracy empowers citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Conscience is the cement
that settles character in place.
Character is the cement
that settles civilization in place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“If we want to live in a country without social issues, you'd have to move to a different planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“If you want to move to a country where there is no social issue, you'd have to move to a different planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Show me a nation with a huge defense budget, I'll show you a retarded nation. Show me a nation with a huge education budget, I'll show you a nation of the future.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the ultimate defense policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Education is the highest form of defense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“With such foundations a kingdom must in time sway and fall.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“A civilized world is not where everybody flocks to another nation to fulfill their dream, but where everybody can pursue their dream without feeling the need to become an immigrant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“When youth rise with purpose, the world bends towards progress.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“If immigrants ain't real Americans,
Neither is our revered Lady Liberty.
She too came from a distant land,
Yet today she is the American epitome...
Though I belong to the whole wide world,
Land of Lady Liberty is my home country.
A nation's character isn't defined by rigidity,
It is defined by a hearty unity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“A government's first duty to its citizens, is to provide a fully functional welfare state. Welfare state ought to be the first refuge, not the last resort. A thriving welfare state produces ambitious citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“A 20 watt brain electrifies the universe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination