Difference In Opinion Quotes

“When a disagreement emerges in a certain situation, you must first learn to distinguish, what's at stake. If it's just your opinion that's at stake, then it's far better to lose an argument than to lose a person, but if it's humanity that's at stake, then it's your duty to speak up, not to win some petty argument, but to make sure that inhumanity does not go unchallenged.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon

“We don't need to see eye to eye with everyone, we just need to accept the fact that the world is big enough for more than one pair of eyes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“A bigot's emphasis on their supremacy over others, is not a difference in opinion but clinical insanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet)

In the beginning even I was,
Bedazzled by the concept of truth.
It took me some time to,
Step across the lure of truth.
That is when I realized that,
Every brain creates its own truth.
So we'd never achieve harmony,
With the heartless pursuit of truth.
Understanding the definition of truth,
May differ from person to person.
But the virtues of basic goodness,
Need no divisive interpretation.
Always place love first, truth second.
Humanity first, intelligence second!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“More we argue over logic and belief, more impotent logic and belief become.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I don't have to agree with everything someone says, but everyone has something I could assimilate to make my own insight stronger and clearer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“Let us embrace the benefits of capitalism, let us embrace the morality of socialism, let us embrace the good from each and every ideology without being a mindless slave to any of them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“Make love the driver of all truth, and whether there is consensus of knowledge or not, there'll always be consensus of heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“It’s more important to be kind than right. Sometimes to be human you gotta lose the fight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Consensus of Heart (The Sonnet)

Place truth at the feet of love,
Intellect at the feet of integration.
Place belief at the feet of harmony,
Stubbornness at the feet of ascension.
Place tradition at the feet of expansion,
Individuality at the feet of collectivity.
Place knowledge at the feet of warmth,
Patriotism at the feet of world community.
Place differences at the feet of unity,
Rebellion at the feet of accountability.
Place serenity at the feet of social uplift,
Practicality at the feet of dignity 'n equality.
Whether there is consensus of head or not,
Let us first ensure consensus of the heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“Let love be the highest opinion,
Let love be the supreme belief.
Without love all growth is decay,
Without love don't even breathe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Be brave enough to belittle your belief, before you belittle a person.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“You don't have to agree with everything others believe, in order to realize they are human. My teacher (GC), in his childish naivety, used to believe a lot of things that are sheer nonsense, but I still love him. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge. Besides, he is the one who set me on fire for the world.

You see, disagreement and discrimination are two different things. And we gotta focus on eliminating discrimination, not disagreement. We gotta focus on being human, not on being superior to each other. Somos todos idiotas - we are all idiots. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can behave wise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Science, Religion & Superstition (The Sonnet)

Religion is all evil, is the superstition,
That half-cocked rationalists suffer from.
Science is devil's work, is the superstition,
That bookish religionists suffer from.
Take the I and cross it out,
Lo, you have a living Christ!
Take the self and set it on fire,
Lo, you have a timeless light!
Yes, I want to convert the world,
I want to convert all cussing into hugging.
Yes, I want to convert the people, all of them,
I want to convert mindless mocking into mending.
I am no preacher, I am no scholar, I am no thinker.
But, without some basic humanity, we shall all wither.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Civil Discourse (The Sonnet)

Be a friend to the just,
But a parent to the unjust.
There is no place for hate,
Restrain the hater, but do not hurt.
The paradigm of revolution needs reform,
We must make it grow out of cruelty,
For cruelty is not the cure for cruelty,
We must treat it with the light of sanity.
It is a sad state of affairs when,
Violence becomes a part of civil discourse.
How can we possibly call ourselves civilized,
If mere disagreement breaks out into violent uproars!
So I repeat, cruelty is not the answer to cruelty.
Work to destroy hate without destroying the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“It's good to be different, what's not good is to be indifferent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Truth is the pandemic,
Truth is the terror.
My truth versus your truth,
Your truth versus another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“It's okay if our beliefs differ -
so long as the result is love,
it's okay if the routes differ.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World