All Quotes

"Reformation of a nation isn't measured by how many big revolutions it has to face. Reformation of a nation is predicated on how many citizens it has who refuse to bend."

"What is the role of an electrical fuse? Amateurs will say, conducting electricity. But the actual task of a fuse is, To blow itself when the load is too heavy. Thus the fuse protects the appliance, Against any electrical irregularity. Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse, Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy."

"Human nerves are the life-circuit of society."

"Youth is not what you think, Youth is not a matter of numericity. Youth is the celebration of life, Youth is the spirit of discovery. Youth is not about age, Youth is but a spirit, The spirit of unsubmission, The spirit of selfless uplift."

"It's one thing to have a spinal cord, another to have a backbone."

"We don't build civilization by erecting one sky-scraper after another. We build civilization by wiping out one discrimination after another."

"A 10 ounce book brings more peace, Than a 20 pounds machine gun. A 3 pound brain brings more order, Than 300 pounds of uranium."

"If a tree falls in a forest, and you are not there, it is okay that you do not hear. But if a child cries in a warzone, and you are not there, is it still okay that you do not hear?"

"Only truth in the cosmos is love."

"With all our understanding of the speed of light, We're yet to cross the distance from heart to heart. With all our fancy equipment of communication, We are yet to listen to those unheard."

"Faith is subordinate to love, Philosophy is subordinate to love, Science is subordinate to love. Until you feel it in your bones, You've got plenty dust to wash off."

"Freedom of religion can exist only, where there is religion of freedom."

"Sense yourself till you sense nothing but love. Break yourself till each crack reflects the infinity of the heart."

"Fear of reason and reason with fear are equally useless."

"Hand raised to shield is human, Hand raised to slay is animal. Voice raised in justice is human, Voice raised in hate is animal."

"Home is not where the heart is, home is where the heart is lost."

"Either love or don't, there is no half-loving."

"No brainwash has any hold over one who is heartwashed."

"Good deeds through the day makes you sleep well at night."

"Birds never know if the sun will rise, yet they sing everyday right before dawn. And sure enough the sun emerges, defeating the most ominous mourn. Be the herald of impossible light, even amidst the worries of souls most weary. The darkness of the world may not be your fault, to light up the world is your existential duty."

"Heart is a miracle, not merchandise."

"Either live or don't, there is no playing safe."

"Failure is ambition in motion, Heartbreak is love in motion. Question is knowledge in motion, Revolution is reform in motion."

"Wield your wounds like crown, Savor your scars like chocolate. Wounds may turn animals bitter, They usher humans into gentleness."

"The more you mock, the higher I fly, More you ignore, more evident I become. Every act of hate ends up feeding my light, More you persecute, more immortal I become."

"Life is short, Forgive a lot, Help plenty, Love like crazy."

"Are you in love? Yes. Are you in pain? Always. Are you happy? Always. In awe they ask me, how can you be all at once! I smile, and respond, because I am alive."

"Do you have any idea, how love works? Me neither. Think not how love works, Just give up, and let love work you."

"Don't seek for someone you can talk sense with, seek for someone you can talk nonsense with."

"My most productive years are my loneliest years."

"Beyond the dead and the undead, there is a valley of life. You shall find me there, where neither happiness nor misery, but love is the measure of life."

"We learnt how to fly like birds, We learnt how to swim like fish, Yet we haven't learnt to love like human."

"Friday Azaan and Sunday Choir, All pray to the same light. Yet in our divisive stupidity, We use it as excuse to maintain divide."

"Secularism has three stages. First, you realize, all religions pray to the same God. Second, you realize, God exists only in the human heart. Finally, all talk of God disappears, and what remains among the humans, is a natural sense of oneness."

"At some point in life you lose interest in new devices, new clothes, new trends - and it dawns on you, what's really important in life, is people. That's when you really start living."

"The greatest iftar is to break the fast of apathy, with the feast of affection."

"Togetherness is not a destination, togetherness is the journey."

"No world is civilized till no one is marginal."

"Hate only keeps traveling round the world, until one person chooses to break the cycle."

"[On the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election] I'll be totally honest, when I heard Andy Burnham wasn't being selected, I punched the air and I thought it's very probable we can win this. I wasn't complacent but I knew we could do it."

"Whether we're talking about the cost of living crisis, whether we're talking about the genocide in Gaza, or generally the feeling that they were voted in on one word, change - and they've not offered a whole lot of it. The Green Party are here, and we're ready to give them that change."

"[On standing as a parliamentary candidate] I have lived in London for more than 20 years. As soon as a by-election comes up in London, I would definitely consider it."

"And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley), after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him. [...] Now the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the [c]persons, and take the goods for yourself.”"

"In our region there are so many armed groups that it is difficult to understand who commits the action. Here in North Kivu we live in total chaos. The situation in my diocese of Goma, like that of Butembo-Beni, is incredible. We are completely abandoned by everyone; we live only thanks to Providence. I ask the faithful of the universal Church to pray for our region so that they can rediscover peace."

"There is little disagreement about what constitutes a healthy state of the organism. But there is much less agreement when one uses the notion of pathology analogically, to describe kinds of behavior that are regarded as deviant. For people do not agree on what constitutes healthy behavior... The medical metaphor limits what we can see much as the statistical view does. It accepts the lay judgment of something as deviant and, by use of analogy, locates its source within the individual, thus preventing us from seeing the judgment itself as a crucial part of the phenomenon."

"The goods and evils of this life make a deeper impression on the minds of Christians in general, than the prospect of those of the future. Neither heaven nor hell, from a want of due reflection, produces much practical effect upon the conduct of the world at large."

"Knowing your worth means never forgetting how valuable you are: your time, your energy, your presence, or your talent. Don’t settle for less just because other people don’t see your shine. Walk away from anything that does not treat you right. When you believe in yourself, everyone will see and believe you, too."

"Politicians walk through mysterious paths, and the springs they move by are concealed from the eyes of the world. The interest of a nation depends upon the capricious humour of a statesman; and the happiness of a people is often sacrificed to private resentment."

"And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea). Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled."

"And indeed, one of the children of Israel came and presented to his brethren a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses [...] Now when Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from among the congregation and took a javelin in his hand; and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stopped among the children of Israel. [...]"