{"quotes":[{"text":"Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","gita","harmony","inspirational","inspiring","philosophy","quran","rational-thinking","religious-diversity","religious-harm","religious-harmony","religious-tolerance","religious-toleration","religious-violence","social-norms","social-progress","society","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":5288,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["civilization","civilized","civilized-behavior","civilized-beings","human-mind","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspiring","love-and-kindness","motivational","progress","sage","social-change","social-progress","social-psychology","thinkers","wisdom","wise","wise-saying"],"id":75164,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Healthy brains create a healthy society.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brain","human-brain","human-life","humanity-and-society","life-lesson","mental-health","neuology","neurobiology","neurophysiology","neuropsychology","neuroscience","psychology","social-progress","social-wellbeing"],"id":80750,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and it will be a society of heartless robots. On the other hand, turn the reasoning network off, and it will be a society of dumb sentimental apes.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","development","human-progress","humanity","love-and-kindness","modern-society","neuropsychology","neuroscience","philosophy","rational-thinking","reason","reasoning","social-progress","society","society-humanity","words-of-wisdom"],"id":111887,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","character","character-building","character","discrimination","discrimination","gender-discrimination","human-mind","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","philosophy","racism","social-progress","truth","words-of-wisdom"],"id":114802,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It 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).","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["astrology","beainy","belief","fear","hocus-focus","horoscope","human-society","ignorance","india","indian-culture","mysticism","neuropsychology","prejudice","prejudices","pseudoscience","psychic","psychology","rational-thinking","reasoning","science","science-of-mind","social-progress","social-psychology","superstition","superstitions","truth","weakness","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":120226,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or ensuring effective socialisation; it also has strong traditions of preparing for citizenship, extending possibilities for learning and promoting social progress.","author":"Gaby Weiner","tags":["citizenship","democracy","education","learning","purposes-of-education","social-progress"],"id":147686,"author_id":"Gaby+Weiner"},{"text":"The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["civilization","civilized","civilized-behavior","civilized-beings","civilized-society","human-civilization","human-nature","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","humans","inspirational-inspiring","motivation","philosophy","primitive-human-behavior","primitive-human-nature","social-change","social-progress","social-reformer","truth","wisdom","wise-sayings","words-of-wisdom"],"id":191557,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.","author":"Oli Anderson","tags":["communication","dialogue","ego","human-beings","labels","points-of-view","reality","social-progress"],"id":197776,"author_id":"Oli+Anderson"},{"text":"Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["civilization","civilized","civilized-behavior","civilized-beings","compassion","human-mind","humanism","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspiring","kindness","love-and-compassion","love-and-kindness","motivational","progress","sage","service-of-humanity","social-change","social-progress","social-psychology","thinkers","wisdom","wise","wise-saying"],"id":243620,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}