Abhijit Naskar

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.

Salvation of human life requires disclosure of truth through reason, surpassing bigotry.

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

The religion that I advocate, and so did the mortal humans known as Jesus, Buddha and Nanak, is the religion of love, compassion and self-realization.

For religion to truly become an aid to humanity as a whole, every human being must make sincere efforts to break down the dogmatic barriers among different religions constructed by the pathologically ill and dangerous fundamentalists.

By infusing Jesus the man with the divine magic _ by making him capable of earthly miracles as well as his own resurrection, the early church turned him into a god within the human world. Thus, the church reinforced the monopoly on the so-called route to heaven, i.e. salvation only through Jesus Christ. And during those days, whoever kept the keys to heaven would rule the world.

What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!

A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world.

If you don__ act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

Oscar may be the world__ most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.

Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism _ the tendencies of greed _ the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust.

Through the sacred verses filled with violence and self-righteousness, the minds of the angry individuals find a way to get rid of all their misery. At that unstable state of consciousness, they are drawn to the description of the Holy War. They visualize a glimmer of hope. They feel absolutely immersed in it. Finally when they emerge as holy warriors, they are no longer humans, from the emotional perspective. They emerge as wild beasts, neurologically almost unable to feel human emotions, like empathy, love, kindness and compassion. Consequently the whole world faces the wrath of the most primitive of all human elements in the name of God__ judgment.

My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

A healthy brain leads to a healthy you.

In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.