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.

The broken humans of the world make the greatest healer.

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.

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

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

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

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

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

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

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.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is love.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

If no one comes, walk alone.

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

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

One who knows pain, can help others without gain.

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

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.

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.

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

Make humanity human again.

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.

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.

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!

The greatest pleasure is in bearing pain for others.

One bridge of acceptance trumps a hundred walls of discrimination.

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

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

It's more important to be kind than right.

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

Progress requires sacrifice of security.

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

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

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

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

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.

Speaking up for rights and equality doesn't require any specific sexuality or gender, all it requires is that you are human.

An illogical yet humane step towards an impossible future is a thousand times better than a logical yet inhuman step towards a possible future.

Enough meditation, it's time for revolution.

Those who mock me today, their children will thank me tomorrow.

Better a kindhearted fool than a heartless tool.

Be the messenger who is up and doing the work, not the vegetable that sleeps clinging to the messages of the past.

Without love, all progress is harm.

If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.

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

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

It is your existential responsibility to raise your child as a human being above everything else – catholic, muslim, jew, asian, caucasian or whatever.

If you can starve to death while sharing your bread with others, instead of appeasing your own hunger while others starve to death, that's the highest miracle of all.

If you must measure my wealth, measure it by the minds I lift, not by the money I own.

I am not left, I am not right, I am only human.

Worshipping images is the religion of the stone-age, helping people is the religion of a civilized society.

Concern for the people should burn like the fire of God in your veins.

I want to live in your heart, for your heart is my temple. I want to live in your memories, for your memories are my treasure.

Words come to me like equations came to Ramanujan and music came to Mozart.

I don't care about your religious belief or disbelief, all I care about is your behavior with others.

Neither Christ, nor Krishna, nor Superman, No imagination can rescue humanity. Each of us is the only helpline, Human salvation is human responsibility.

If all you do is care for your own elevation, then at the end of the day, you'll find yourself six feet under.

Virtue is not the ability to tell right from wrong, virtue is the capacity to pursue the inconvenient right defying the comfort of the convenient wrong.

Imagination is war against the impossible.

Rise or fall doesn’t matter, if you've helped a few people.

One person can end a war, if they give all to the making of peace.

World peace begins where petty nationalistic identities end.

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!

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.

Someone asked me, 'politicians and celebrities are plagiarizing your statements quite a lot, yet you keep silent, why!' I replied, 'all I care about is to unite the humankind - whether someone quotes me without crediting, is not my concern, I leave that to the people'.

Society teaches you to find joy in the benefit of the self, as a result everyone grows up to be miserable, for the more you seek joy for yourself the more joy runs away from you, but the moment you forget the self and walk down the path of service to benefit others, joy comes running after you.

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.

In my thirty years of existence I've come to the realization that all talk of truth is nonsense. Because even though we assume truth to be absolute and universal, in reality, in our human world no one truth is universal or absolute, it's all relative. The only force absolute and universal is love - there's nothing higher, braver or wiser.

When I was at university, my dorm was in a red light area. Often after class on my way to the dorm, I would sit with those sisters of mine and listen to their stories and struggles for hours - just listening to them pouring their heart out gave me a kind of uncorrupted bliss that couldn't be explained with human words. You don't need to be a practicing physician or psychiatrist to ease the pain of others, listening to them as a human being crossing prejudice is enough.

With indifference people are continuously breeding a society full of disparity – they are constantly aiding the creation of more inequality. We are constantly making way for a world where some parents give their kids x-box to soothe them, for their birthday, and many more parents are forced to use leftover cardboard boxes as cradle for their babies because they don't even have a roof over their head. This is our so called civilization - this is our so called modern humanity - shame on us - shame on us as a species - shame on us as civilized beings - shame on us as thinking and breathing individuals of conscience. No more - no more - we must break this disparity - and we must do it right now - and we are not going to do it by fighting over whose ideology is the best - we are going to do it only by taking actual responsibility of our society - by taking actual responsibility of the world - we are going to do it by acting as a living cure for those disparities, by using our own resources as means to erase those gaps however we can. Only with action born from our heart can we end disparity, not with talks of argument and inaction of complacency.