Quotes by Abhijit Naskar

Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.

Truth does not need publicity, lies do.

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

Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.

The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Religion without reason is like making love without love.

Be skeptic, be doubtful, be rebellious towards every single dogma of the society. Only then there will be hope of progress for humanity.

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

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.

Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with needs. Needs are necessity, but wants are luxury.

Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.

Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.

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.

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.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.

All answers that you seek can only be found within.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Whether in the name of Just War, Witch-Hunt or the Inquisition, at various points of history for various poppycock reasons the cross had been the weapon of mass destruction in the hands of the orthodox church.

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.