All Quotes

"Black, white, brown or martian - at the end of the day, you'll find good and evil in every corner of the world. You'll find apes peddling segregation in the name of preserving heritage and purity, in every corner of the world, just like you'll find humans standing up for love and oneness, in every corner of the world. It has nothing to do with ethnicity of a person, and everything to do with humanity of the person."

"I accept the bible, but not nazism. I accept the koran, but not islamism. I accept the gita, but not hindutva. I accept the torah, but not zionism."

"The difference between (hu)man and monkey lies in inclusivity."

"I’m sorry, I cannot live a single cultural, single lingual, single scriptural existence. I want all the cultures and languages, I want all the scriptures and sciences."

"The real first world war has just begun - the war between good and evil - the war between emancipation and occupation - between inclusion and exclusion - between expansion and contraction - between reason and rigidity - between humanity and inhumanity. I call it, World War Human. And unlike previous times, we won't win this war by old-fashioned bullets and bombs, or by deceit and diplomacy. The World War Human can only be won by education, and education alone - by an ardent, absolute, unambiguous, unbending, undoctrinated, unphobic, unwhitewashed, decolonized, nonpartisan, gender neutral, valiant, self-correcting and conscientious execution of education."

"Stateless, cultless, I walk the planet. Restless, sleepless, I live a dream. Friendless, loveless, I brave the mission. The being is dissolved for the beacon to beam."

"Integration 101: I don't exist."

"Divergence is nature’s way to expansion."

"To make heritage out of consciousness is to make garbage out of consciousness. To make tradition out of stagnation is to make fertilizer out of living veins."

"Least capable people are most selfish. The greatest hopes are always hopeless."

"Today's choice is tomorrow's instinct, Choose peace today, tomorrow it's norm. Yesterday's choice is today's instinct, Give in to hate, and the jungle goes on."

"Don't be an alcoholic, be a writer - hundred times the intoxication, without the primitiveness."

"We are curators of our own illumination."

"There are cracks across my heart, nothing can bar the pouring rays. Light is but suffering harnessed, Genius is brokenness harnessed."

"Surround yourself with luxury, you feel fancy. Surround yourself with books, you feel brainy. Surround yourself with people, you feel alive."

"Borders are glorified apartheid, Passports are glorified bus pass. No peace can ever come to light, from the doings of apartheid heart."

"When I use the term colonizer, I refer only to those who take pride in colonial exploits, and not to those accountable human beings who happen to descend from colonial ancestors. Colonialism is the enemy, it has nothing to do with skin or ancestry. As long as you stand true on ethics of equality and mettle of character, rather than boasting pedigree and archaic tradition, you are a champion of humanity, no matter your ethnicity, ancestry, profession or status."

"Every ape has a talent for war, takes a human to rise in peace."

"Stronger the military, stupider the citizens. World in trance of arms, is a planet of the apes."

"Forget about afterlife, focus on afterlight, light that is left behind, by your deeds of life."

"Death is inevitable, Life is a choice. Extinction is inevitable, Existence is a choice."

"I believe in the right to belief, but not as excuse for discrimination."

"My holiness is vast as the sky, and deep as the ocean - it has place for every faith, but no place for intoleration."

"Enter a hall with high ceiling, and you feel small, in a room with low ceiling you feel like a giant. The height of human doesn't depend on numbers, we judge our height relative to the world around. Bigots hate an inclusive world not because it is unorthodox, but because it reminds them, how puny they are - how small."

"Call it Halloween, Diwali or Dia de Los Muertos, it's the universal struggle for light, of us humans - insan - humanos."

"To transcend culture is the beginning of culture."

"Kindness demands the greatest of bravery, that's why easy cruelty is so predominant."

"The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot."

"If I had a child, I wouldn't teach them a single thing about the culture I was raised in - instead I'll hand over all the cultures I've assimilated throughout my life, so that one day they may grow up to be a whole human being, rather than a puny fragmented ape - so that they may become a large person in a small planet, rather than a small primate in a large world."

"Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness, using only their brain and backbone."

"Just as there is such a thing as blinded by light, there is such a thing as blinded by reason. Just as there is such a thing as poisoned by oxygen, there is such a thing as poisoned by belief."

"No belief is more holy than tolerance. First sign of divinity is a tolerant heart."

"Soul that is kind is soul divine, Mind segregated is most unholy kind. Helping the helpless is holiness alive, Day of the living is day of the divine."

"Goodwill that prevails only during the holidays, is no goodwill."

"Within me there's a world where consciousness, rights, oneness are the same."

"Carrying cosmos in my chest, every community is my home."

"Palestine to Kashmir, North Korea to North America, persecution anywhere is persecution of humanity."

"There is no greater vision than the common sense of community."

"Peace will come in our time, when we make time for peace."

"Better a traitor to the border than a traitor to humanity, better an enemy of the state than enemy of humanity."

"There is nothing more cataclysmic than a sea of unarmed citizens out for justice - even the richest oligarchic leeches, armed with billions of robots, tanks and satellites, would crumble like twigs."

"Language is the highway to culture."

"Every corner of earth has added to my flight, erase any one community, and you diminish my light."

"Laugh hard, love harder. Live lovely, die lovelier."

"Black is brave, Woman is wonder, Muslim is magnetic, Asian is thunder. Prejudice is plunder, Biases are blunder. Hate wreaks havoc, when hearts are asunder."

"Trampling on others' rights is just as cannibalistic as feeding on others' flesh."

"Give me a pen, I'll give you peace. One pen can defeat a thousand guns, that's why books get banned, not guns."

"Abandon your ancestors before you abandon your humanity, abandon your tradition before you abandon tolerance."

"What burns the bigots most is an unbending flame of inclusion."

"The only way to end prejudice from the world is to stare it right into the eyes and speak love."