“I long to get away, sometimes, from my own generation. I don't care whether it's into the past, or into the future, so long as it's away from the patter into simple realities again. I hate being a slave to my own age.
...
We are so afraid of sentimentality that we're losing the power of human feeling. Our writers today understand all the brutalities and cynicisms; but how many of them understand the simple human affections that hold decent human beings together and make the world worth living in?”
Source: The Sun Cure
“In some circles, I am called a genius,
Yet the only genius I know of is service.
In other circles, I am branded fraud,
Yet the only fraud I know of is prejudice.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“contiguous, adj.
I felt silly for even mentioning it, but once I did, I knew I had to explain.
"When I was a kid, "I had this puzzle with all fifty states on it--you know, the kind where you have to fit them all together. And one day I got it in my head that California and Nevada were in love. I told my mom, and she had no idea what I was talking about. I ran and got those two pieces and showed it to her--California and Nevada, completely in love. So a lot of the time when we're like this"--my ankles against the backs of your ankles, my knees fitting into the backs of your knees, my thighs on the backs of your legs, my stomach against your back, my chin folding into your neck--"I can't help but think about California and Nevada, and how we're a lot like them. If someone were drawing us from above as a map. that's what we'd look like; that's how we are."
For a moment, you were quiet. And then you nestled in and whispered.
"Contiguous."
And I knew you understood.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“When in the darkest valley, when in the highest mountain; when in the fiercest battle, when victory seems impossible, call unto the God who makes things possible and you will realize that through Him, all things are possible.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Letter to My Soldiers
I am only the beginning - the beginning of a new kind of humans - humans who belong to not one culture, but many cultures - humans who speak not one language, but many languages - humans who study scriptures and science with equal enthusiasm, yet pledge allegiance to neither, and know how to use both in the benefit of humanity - humans who aim for neither belief nor disbelief, but warmth and understanding - humans who are more concerned with the real hard problem of inhumanity, than the outdated hard problem of consciousness - humans who sacrifice their life treating the real hard question of hate, rather than the mythical hard question of god. I am only the beginning - the first spark, if you may - the best are yet to come.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“I don't wanna rule nobody,
I don't wanna indoctrinate nobody.
But if your doctrine ruins another's rights,
behind the excuse of imaginary sacred light,
I shall be your worst blasphemous enemy.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Heart is my gospel,
brain is my constitution.
Backbone is my law,
service is my salvation.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Cleverness without conscience is poison.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Cleverness without conscience is a calamity.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Person's gospel is but their own conscience.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion