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“Wild animals look good in the jungle, not in the Oval Office.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“They have a nostalgia for a world that never existed. - On Nationalists”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“Blind nationalism is a threat to every nation on this planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Nationalism is terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“As for nationalism, it has no right to exist except in football matches.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“Have you noticed, it's always the nationalists who deny climate change," says Eve. "Like they can't handle the challenge of thinking globally. I just wish they didn't take us all down with them.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

“You can either be a nationalist or you can be a human, not both, because though in the old days nationalism aided the movement of national integrity and self-determination across the world, today it has become a filthy weapon in the exploits of bigotry, ignorance, narcissism and separatism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“Expansion is life, narrowness is death. Universality is life, nationality is death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Nationalism is not love for one's nation, it's the glorification of one nation while rejecting the shortcomings of that nation, at the expense of the honor of other nations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“When you assume your nation needs no improvement, when you assume that your nation is at its absolute best, you are inadvertently burying your nation alive, for a nation that assumes self-proclaimed supremacy is the only inferior nation on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“A nation that assumes self-proclaimed supremacy is the only inferior nation on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Pledging allegiance to a rag on a pole, is no longer a sign of well-built character. If you wanna slogan for anything at all, let us slogan for sentiments beyond border.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The best way to sustain profits of war, is to keep people infected with the nationalist flu.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 76

In the old days tribal chiefs used to fool people,
With talks of tribal honor and heritage.
Today's chiefs in suits manipulate modern tribals,
With talks of national security and lineage.
When our ancestors behaved as tribals,
It is acceptable for they didn't know better.
But when we identify as civilized yet act tribal,
It is but a degrading stain upon our honor.
Though all politicians are not savages,
Paradigm of modern politics thrives on division.
So make not the dreadful mistake to think,
That politicians are gonna bring peace and elevation.
It is a world of citizens, citizens are its lifeblood.
You and I are its caretakers, not some elected vanguard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Enough with this barbarianism of sovereignty! Step up and shout, the whole world is my family!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“All nationalism is nazism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Time to Defect (The Sonnet)

It's time to defect, my friend -

from the side of passport to the side of heartport,
from the side of prison to the side of reason,
from the side of nationality to the side of sanity,
from the side of myopia to the side of motion,

from the side of crutches to the side of conscience,
from the side of coffins to the side of character,
from the side of bombs to the side of backbone,
from the side of barbwire to the side of brainwire,

from the side of flag to the side of fervor,
from the side of parasites to the side of paragons,
from the side of pacemakers to the side of peacemakers,
from the side of ideology to the side of illumination.

It's time to defect, my friend -
from the side of caves to the side of kind,
from the side of tribe to the side of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“It's time to defect, my friend - from the side of tribe to the side of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Whenever a politician secretly dreams of autocracy, you'll hear them shout a lot about preserving the culture and tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“There is a danger of becoming a racist when you argue with racists.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world. Grow so big with inclusivity that you become a curse to every fundamentalist institution in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“It's a slippery slope from nationality to nationalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Grow so big with your ideas that you become a threat to every nationalist state in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Humankind's most inherited tendency has been intolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Nationalism manufactures more widows and orphans than disease and disaster.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Beyond Borders and Dogma
(Sonnet 1590)

Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
takes a human to home the world.
Leeches obsess over guns and badges,
takes a human to deck the halls.

Beyond borders and dogma,
beyond division and doctrine,
beyond malignant maleficence,
everyone is my kith and kin.

Any ape can boast about their culture,
I'll die roaring for every culture
on earth, except my own.
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
I stand guard till all are one.

Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“You can either be nationalist or human. Expansion is life, creed is castration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Monkeys come in all shapes and sizes,
Many are white, while others are colored.
Nationalism doesn't infect any one tribe,
it's a jungle virus that affects the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Charity begins at home,
War begins at home.
Denounce all patriot pills,
for peace begins at home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“There is no greater superstition than the superstition of nation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim