Humanitarian Brainy Quotes

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

There are two kinds of people in the world - first those who run away from danger, then there are those who run towards danger, to see if someone needs help.

Be the person who moves hearts - be the person who heals wounds - be the person who makes darkness disappear - be the person who makes colors reappear.

United we are humans, divided we are apes.

The broken humans of the world make the greatest healer.

Disinfect the world my friend – disinfect it with your thinking – disinfect it with your actions – disinfect it with your existence.

Agony can bring greatness out of a person, but in the process, the person has to walk barefoot on red-hot coal while bleeding from all over the being.

Be the harmony in the melody echoing in the heart of humanity.

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who make things happen and those who watch things happen.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

I care not about science, I care not about spirituality, all I care about is service of humanity.

You have the power to turn this tearful world into a cheerful one. The question is, will you?

If someone wants to do good they'll do good, whether they have a billion dollars or just one.

What are you good for, if your life doesn't make a single trace of contribution in the alleviation of people's misery!

The greatest gift you can give anyone is love.

If we don't take responsibility of what happens to our society, then no amount of Independence can improve human condition.

Awake and Arise my sisters and brothers to slogan for all of humankind. We are the light and we are the might that's needed during this ominous tide.

My goal - my purpose - the reason for my existence is only one - it is to ensure that humanity doesn't lose sight of its humanity, in the constant battle between beliefs - between ideologies - between opinions - between religious orthodoxy and radical reasoning.

Practicing a thousand yoga postures, doesn't make a person spiritual, nor does uttering "aum" or "hallelujah" a thousand times - what makes a person spiritual, is plain ordinary everyday act of kindness.

Let's disagree with each other most enthusiastically - let's annoy each other - let's bite each other's head off - but let's never hate each other and let's always stand together, no matter the differences.

If you want to be an extremist, be extreme in your acts of kindness - if you want to be a fundamentalist, practice the fundamental principle of acceptance in every walk of your life - if you want to be an intellectual, use your intellect to improve human condition.

Every generation needs caretakers - and the caretaker of your generation is you.

If humanity is in misery, it may not be my fault, but if I die leaving humanity with the same amount of misery, then it is my fault.

Sentience creates bridge between people.

Give me your prejudices - give me your biases - give me your hatred - give me your conditioned soul - and I will give you a unified and humane humanity.

Make humanity human again.

Act beyond reward - think beyond dogmas - and feel beyond differences.

Fighting fire with fire will burn the whole world to ashes.

One bridge of acceptance trumps a hundred walls of discrimination.

The greatest pleasure is in bearing pain for others.

Countless souls are starving to death around the world, yet you keep wasting heaps of money on alcohol, cigarettes and cheap thrills - how can you be so nonchalant, my friend!

HUMAN means Harmony - HUMAN means Unity - HUMAN means Magnanimity - HUMAN means Acceptance – HUMAN means Nobility.

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.

Progress requires sacrifice of security.

Now is the time that we walk as humans and not as labels. Rise and walk, like did Rosa Parks, MLK, Madiba (Mandela), Honest Abe (Lincoln), Mevlana (Rumi) and many more.

Your identity lies not in your name or your background, but in your actions.

Human you are, and your purpose is to live for others as much as you live for yourself.

Humanity, that's the title we should be most attached to, yet that's the title we are least attached to.

Life is not lived till it's lived for others.

God may arrive late if called, but not you, for you are the only living God on earth, and all others are mere imitations of your image.

It's more important to be kind than right.

The sun doesn't ask for admiration in return for its light and warmth.

To screw or not to screw this world, that's the question.

If no one comes, walk alone.

See no gender, hear no gender, speak no gender - see only human, hear only human, speak only human.

A nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people.

Computers are binary, not people. All people are non-binary, for life is non-binary.

If you say, "let there be light", and then act with all your capacity to make it a reality, only then there will be light and hope in the world.

When love awakens so will the world, for love is the seed of civilization.

If we don't learn to break bread with each other, there'll come a day when none of us will have any bread to break.

One who knows pain, can help others without gain.

A true healer is not the one with magical powers, but the one who does everything in their power to help those in need.

No pilgrimage is holier than compassion, no gospel is truer than kindness, no offering is grander than love.

Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of human will to stand up to injustice.

All stains of the society are born in the mind, and so is the detergent to clean them off.

Organizations can't bring peace, for peace begins with the individual - it begins with you. And so long as you rely on these organizations to bring peace in your surroundings, peace shall remain merely an issue for the celebrities to exploit as a means to attract more followers.

Talking science all the time, doesn't make a person any more human than a janitor who knows no science. A creature becomes human by helping others, regardless of his or her scientific knowledge.

Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world. And tomorrow there will be a hundred more stupid like me, for this stupidity for changing the world can never accept any excuse for inaction, even if that excuse happens to be a most rational reason.

Forget the world, forget civilization, forget all those pompous ideas of progress and global goals, simply take a stand in your vicinity, in your locality, against discrimination, against prejudices, against corruption and harassment.

The path of service is but a thorn-infested trail in the woods - a trail that is not yet made a trail, but simply lies indistinguishable from the rest of the jungle. And the work of a torch-bearer of progress is to make the trail appear and soften the thorns by crushing them with their own footsteps, while bearing an infinite amount of agony.

Make your existence a cynosure of service.

Your blood is full with vigor my brave soldier of destiny, so bring all that vigor out in the service of your family called humanity.

Freedom doesn't mean doing whatever you want - freedom means doing what brings warm, humane progress for the self as well as others.

Your perception is the world's perception, your realization is the world's realization.

Science in its truest form is and will always remain compatible with human rights and equality.

Heal your kind my friend with your wisdom and warmth transcendent, If not you then who else will unify humanity and rise as sapiens triumphant.

Whenever there is an uprising of misery, discrimination and sectarianism, I shall rise over and over again, to take humanity with me in the path of sweet, progressive harmony.

I am a plain ordinary human in the service of the humans - service is my oxygen, service is my water, service is my bread and service is my butter.

Burn so bright that the world comes to life.

Good is god and discrimination is demon.

The world is our family and our family is our responsibility.

People are what matters and how you treat them determines what kind of a creature you are - a conscientious human being or a mere human-looking animal.

We are all reflections of each other in the vast mirror of motion and space.

To have great progress, one must sacrifice small pleasures.

A smile can do more good than all the doctrines in the world.

More than money, fame and even truth, give me people.

No one is inferior to no one.

From each drop of my blood, a thousand humanitarians will be born, to fortify the feeble, to unify the divided, to raise the abandoned and to invigorate the discriminated.

The day the sun starts asking reward for the light and warmth it gives to the world, would be the last day of the sun's existence.

I am but a human in the service of humans.

Service is the only path to greatness.

In the nameless space of mind, the space between minds vanishes.

If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go out in the world to end misery.

A few lion-hearts must sacrifice their life, forgetting fame, fun and fortune, so that the rest of humanity can live.

Everyone is mad for something, I am mad for everyone.

Be strong, but don't let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people's weaknesses.

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

Everyone says they wish that everything could be alright for everyone. The fact is, everything would be alright for everyone, if only people could learn to behave like human beings.

Throw away such intellect that doesn’t bring people together – throw away such scriptures that create walls rather than bridges – throw away such institutions that proclaim exclusive authority over divinity – throw away such reasoning that barres you from accepting human weakness. Throw away every single trace of inhumanity, regardless of their intellectual or non-intellectual grounds. Intellect without humanity, is as dangerous as religious fundamentalism.

The world needs a janitor, to clean its stains of barbarianism - the world needs a mechanic, to fix its broken conscience in the fog of socio-cultural conditioning - the world needs a plumber, to fix its internal plumbing that carries courage, compassion and acceptance. And mark you, it doesn't matter whatsoever, of what color your collar is, what matters above everything else, is that - are you responsible, and then, are you committed and courageous enough to act on that responsibility!

Without truth, time is merely the kingdom of the animals. Time brings progress and humanitarian glory, only if truth walks the nerves of our mind, as we walk the alleys of space - in that walk we relinquish the space between the self and the other.

My religion is the best - my nation is the best - my language is the best - my skin color is the best - and so on. One may feel proud saying all these things, but that very pride ends up becoming the cause of all interhuman conflicts in the human society.

I belong to America, as much as I belong to Russia - I belong to England, as much as I belong to France - I belong to Bulgaria, as much as I belong to Turkey - I belong to India, as much as I belong to Pakistan, Bangladesh and so on. I belong to every nation on this planet. Every country is my country - every culture is my culture - every history is my history. One who sacrifices the self in the service of others, no longer sees any separation whatsoever between the self and the rest of the world - it all becomes one.

One human's despair is all humans' despair - one human's joy is all humans' joy - one human's accomplishments are all humans’ accomplishments. Such should be the genuine thinking of a civilized and conscientious human, if there is to be peace and harmony in the world.

Mainspring of Life (A Sonnet) I have no nationality except humanity, I have no tradition except compassion, I have no religion except liberty, I have no god except a family of 7 billion, I have no belief but only awareness, I have no creed but only acceptance, I have no messiah except the self, I have no scripture except my conscience, I have no gospel except godliness, I have no sermon except thought, I have no philosophy except oneness, I have nothing to give you except love a whole lot, I demand no obedience, nor do I desire worship and offering, For there is death in worship, and freedom is life's mainspring.

Serve my would-be patriot - serve your people - your kind – serve your humans like your life depends on it - serve with all the might in your body and brain - serve with your whole being - make your existence a cynosure of service - and then only shall evolution pave the path toward a less wild and more humane world.

Destroy such shining altars that spread bigotry - demolish such glorious churches and temples that proclaim divine supremacy - burn such glistening crucifixes, scriptures and idols that are used to preach weakness and segregation - obliterate every single trace of orthodoxy from the face of this planet, not with violence, but with awareness - and work - work to uplift the downtrodden - work to elevate the impoverished - work to raise those abandoned by fortune and opportunity - only then you shall have the rightful place under the sun as a holy human being.