Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo EmersonThe answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.
— Sunday AdelajaWe no longer have any time to waste, entertaining our dark side. It is time we recognize those evil elements of our internal world and start working untiringly on eradicating them.
— Abhijit NaskarIt is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).
— Abhijit NaskarWolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools - like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.
— Jane LindskoldHumans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths of cruelty, sometimes within the same body...
— Kiley MacLeodAny religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.
— Abhijit NaskarThe development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.
— Eraldo BanovacProgress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.
— Abhijit NaskarLiterature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.
— Salman Rushdie