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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
“If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.”
“What is the point of you? What is your worth? And by worth I am not talking about your financial value, I am talking about something much more significant than that. So, I ask again - what is your worth? And you won't find the answer in any scripture or church - you won't find it even in this book. Because no external power can give you the answer to something so incredibly existential in nature.
If you want to know your worth, ask yourself, what are you without your bank account. The worth of a person lies in character. The same goes for a nation and the same goes for a world. Therefore, a nation's worth lies not in the value of its currency, but in the character of its people. And it all begins with the individual - it all begins with you. Your character holds not just the worth of your own life, but that of the lives of your people as well. So, feel like it's the feeling of your society and act like it's the action of your society.
But mark you, here I do not mean, feeling and acting like the society, rather, I am asking you to feel, think and act as an original, brave and conscientious human being, so that you become the very emblem of humanhood in front of others, for them to draw their life’s inspiration from. Doing what the society wants, makes you a second hand human - wanting the society to do what you want, makes you a narcissistic bigot - but being an embodiment of humanhood without any expectation from others, is what makes you a sentient human.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“There are three kinds of people in the world - Those who make the world, those who mock the makers, and those who sleep through all the making and mocking. Or better yet, there are humans then there are animals - Humans who make the world, humans who help the makers, and animals are those who keep mocking and sleeping.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Everybody fears hell, all they
want is a heaven of convenience.
Only the brave can dare to break
into hell to rescue the innocent.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Indifference is the destroyer of civilizations.”
“Better die a roaring reformer than live as a cowardly conformer.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“Liberty to be and weep has never been sufficient:
The winds surround our griefs, the unfenced sky
To all our failures is a taciturn unsmiling witness.”
Source: Journey to a War
“Being indifferent about sexual abuse is an absolute assault on the truth of who the victim is!”
Source: Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of abuse hidden behind closed doors
“Messiahs don't drop from the sky,
As mortal suffering jumps the fence.
A messiah is just a mortal,
Minus all the indifference.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Revolution starts with inconvenient accountability.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“If the world had more carers and sharers, we wouldn't need the services of therapists.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Elimination of coldness is the highest of all wisdom.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Human Bulldozer (The Sonnet)
I am no Gandhi, that I'd sit quietly and spin a wheel,
While people suffer in the clutches of imperialism.
I am no Guevara either, that I would shoot anyone,
Who looks suspicious, in my revolution for freedom.
Gandhi and Guevara are two extremes of human struggle,
One glorifies submission, another heralds new oppression.
Neither is fit for an infant world aiming to be civilized,
For one lacks backbone, the other weaponizes assumption.
We may take a little from Gandhi, a little from Guevara,
Without rigidity we may administer them accordingly.
I am an accountable human living in a world run by biases,
So most times I'll keep quiet and act as a harmless dummy.
But whenever inhumanity goes overboard wreaking havoc,
The human bulldozer will rise to cleanse every epoch.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“In a world where indifference is deemed as sanity what's needed is a whole lot of mentalness, a whole lot of insanity, insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for establishing the fundamental rights of life and living for each and every human being.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“You know what Human means? HUMAN means Harmonious across Hate, Undivided through Diversity, Mindful amidst Mindlessness, Amiable amidst Apathy, and Neighborly amidst Nonchalance.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Collective wellbeing always involves some personal inconvenience, but if you ignore the wellbeing of the collective because it is inconvenient to you as an individual, then I'm afraid such mentality will only dump you and the collective back in the stoneage.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“We cannot wish a civilization to reality, we can only will it to reality.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“The number of fictional superheroes increases in proportion to the lack of actual accountability in people.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Inhumanity is plenty, torment is plenty. Are you the ointment, or just another senseless sapiens?”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Handicapped is not the one with a crippled body, Handicapped is the one with a crippled heart.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Every sapiens is atom bomb,
Every sapiens is a power plant.
Reckless mind is mayhem machine,
Hateless mind is lightland.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Bonkers human is righteous human,
All others are sleeping mice.
If you ain't bonkers for love and life,
There is no love, there is no life.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“I Am Idiot (The Sonnet)
I am not as stupid as you think,
I am far more stupid than that.
My stupidity is beyond the grasp of,
All puny dreams of heaven and earth.
You have no idea how stupid I am,
To have an idea is to join the club.
What do the calculating snobs know,
Of the logic-defying madness of love!
The opposite of stupidity is narcissism,
I am the stupid beyond all such stupidity.
Where animals sell selfishness as sanity,
I am drunk, I am dumb, I am but humanity.
Better be a human and considered an idiot,
Than be a moron and worshipped as sage.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Till we stop being a bunch of poncy, pretentious pillock, each obnoxious advancement will cause nothing but havoc.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“A messiah is just a mortal, minus all the indifference.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Sonnet of Unlearning
Peace is not a matter of learning harmony,
It's about unlearning division.
Science is not about learning logic,
It's about unlearning superstition.
Health is not about learning medicine,
It's about unlearning over-indulgence.
Justice is not about learning accountability,
It's about unlearning indifference.
Order is not about learning law,
It's about unlearning recklessness.
Holiness is not about learning scripture,
It's about unlearning hatefulness.
More than learning, we got plenty to unlearn.
All of it starts with unsubmission to tradition.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“Indifference is the only thing left once true love dies.”
“Practical Mindfulness (The Sonnet)
When someone's world is crumbling down,
Reach out to lend a shoulder not analysis.
If the world had more carers and sharers,
We wouldn't need the services of therapists.
Most humans are raised to be selfish robots,
Then they spend their life on a therapist's sofa.
When someone's going through a period of grief,
Only the mindless comments, 'have you tried yoga!'
For the human mind to be whole and healthy,
You gotta empty it of all the unhealthy junk.
And there is no greater junk on the face of earth,
Than the traditions that make us self-centric drunk.
Elimination of coldness is the highest of all wisdom.
Treat the common cold, and you'll treat all descension.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“I walk through our front door, give it a good slam, and wait for a reaction. All I get is a house full of indifference.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“The best kind of pleasure comes from the indifference to pain … and pleasure.”
“I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going
even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far
away from the rest of life....”
Source: All the Flowers Kneeling
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
“Sonnet of Human Duty
To deliver humanity from inhumanity,
Is the duty of every human.
To deliver the innocent from injustice,
Is the duty of every human.
The indifferent may call it god complex,
Apathetic pessimists may call it idealism.
I call it the meaning of life and sanity,
The opposite is just a sign of doofusism.
Differences won't destroy the world,
Indifference is far more ominous.
The problem is not the evil doers,
But the silent spectators.
Mark me well, the day I stay silent is the day,
Lady liberty throws her torch away.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“What he had not known was that, at any given time, that first nature could return to a man, unchanged by al the pursuits and passions and experiences of his life; untouched even by the tastes and intellectual activities which have been strong enough to give him distinction among his fellows and to have made for him, as they say, a name in the world. Perhaps this revision did not often occur, but he knew it had happened to him, and he suspected it had happened to his grandfather. He did not regret his life, but he was indifferent to it. It seemed to him like the life of another person.”
Source: The Professor's House
“No human is incapable of changing the world, but most are unwilling to take responsibility.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Painful wounds, the indifference of friends, the loneliness of losing— all leave a bitter taste. But at these times, he says to himself: ‘I fought for something and did not succeed. I lost the first battle.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“People are worried that machines will take over the world and then they’ll have no voice any more. Well - what voice do you have today, despite having a voice! You are already puppets to your political overlords. You don’t think for yourself, you don’t feel for yourself, you don’t behave for yourself - heck, that’s why you have election in the first place - not so you could choose a leader, but so you don’t have to take any responsibility.
And you are still worried about machines taking over your lives! Your lives are already taken over, not by mechanical deities but by organic sectarian deities born of the womb of your own indifference. So forget about a fictitious future which may or may not happen and pay attention to the real threat that haunts the society in the present - namely, your own indifference.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“I am no Gandhi, that I would rather let people be tortured by imperialist morons than raise my hand in their defense. I am no Guevara either, that I would accept the loss of innocent lives in my fight for freedom. I am a whole, accountable, thinking human being living in a world still infested with and run by cruelty and biases. Where the situation demands silence, I'll keep quiet, but if and where it demands a bulldozer, believe you me, no gun, no grenade, my bare hands will cause a riot.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“If you like sleeping, don't mock those who don't. If they fall asleep, you and your children won't.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“World peace is not an absence of world conflicts, world peace is the absence of civilian indifference towards world conflicts.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“There is no humanitarian crisis, there is just everyday, ordinary human indifference.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“War is a bad bad thing, but you know what's worse - it's the silence of the civilians who don't even raise an eyebrow at the tomfoolery of the warmongers.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Capitalists rule the world, because civilians lay low. Politicians rule the world, because civilians lay low.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Be the last first human standing.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“The strategy of exorcizing the sexual body by wildly exaggerating the signs of sex, of exorcizing desire by its secret depolarization and the exaggeration of its mise en scene, is much more effective than that of good old repression, which , by contrast, used prohibition to create difference. Yet it is not clear who benefits from this strategy, as everyone suffers it without distinction. This travestied regime - in the broadest sense — has become the very basis of our institutions. You find it everywhere — in politics, architecture, theory, ideology and even in science.
You even find it in our desperate quest for identity and difference. We no longer have the time to seek out an identity in the historical record, in memory , in a past, nor indeed in a project or a future. We have to have an instant memory which we can plug in to immediately - a kind of promotional identity which can be verified at every moment. What we look for today, where the body is concerned , is not so much health, which is a state of organic equilibrium, but fitness, which is an ephemeral , hygienic , promotional radiance of the body - much more a performance than an ideal state — which turns sickness into failure. In terms of fashion and appearance , we no longer pursue beauty or seductiveness, but the 'look' .
Everyone is after their 'look'. Since you can no longer set any store by your own existence (we no longer look at each other - and seduction is at an end!), all that remains is to perform an appearing act, without bothering to be, or even to be seen.
It is not: 'I exist, I'm here' , but 'I'm visible, I'm image — look , look!' This is not even narcissism. It's a depthless extraversion, a kind of promotional ingenuousness in which everyone becomes the impresario of his/her own appearance.
The 'look ' is a kind of minimal, low-definition image, like the video image or, as McLuhan would say, a tactile image , which provokes neither attention nor admiration, as fashion still does, but is a pure special effect without any particular meaning . The look is not exactly fashion any more; it is a form of fashion which has passed beyond. It no longer subscribes to a logic of distinction and it is no longer a play of difference; it plays at difference without believing in it. It is indifference. Being oneself becomes an ephemeral performance , with no lasting effects, a disenchanted mannerism in a world without manners.”
Source: Screened Out
“When inhumanity is committed on others, we turn our back, when it's committed on us, we compromise. That's how the world works, nay, that's how we work - we the so-called civilized beings. What civilized! What sentient! What sapient! We haven't even developed the spine to stand up to oppression and dehumanization! Then how on earth could we call ourselves civilized, sentient, and sapient!”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Those who violate humanity and those who tolerate inhumanity are both equally guilty.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“The World Sonnet
The world will never be a place without troubles,
But that is not the point, the point is something else.
The point is that most of the troubles we do have,
Are caused by our own archaic stupidity 'n shallowness.
Shallow and indifferent, that's the norm of the world.
With such norm how can we expect there to be equality!
Civilization comes from the ground, not the government.
The ones walking the ground are the cause of humanity.
Rhythm of the world comes from the rhythm of your heart,
Place your hand on your heart and listen across biases.
If there is music in you there'll be music in the world,
But if there's just noise within, all around there’ll be travesty.
WORLD means We On Road of Love and Determination.
The aim is to conquer our last ounce of discrimination.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“An apathetic society yells about equality on specific days. An accountable human needs no occasion to roar across dismay.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“For the Warrior there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference, or rejection. He knows that behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“Every responsible civilian is a reformist, whereas every apathetic civilian is a terrorist,”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“When we feel abandoned along the road of indifference, we can jam our path into our thinking mind, breaking free from the shackles of inattention, getting our life together, uncovering our identity, and resurfacing in a world of sympathy and understanding. (”Life with sea view”)”
“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible.”
“Indifference is acceptable from a vegetable, not from a human being.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Like all disappearing forms, art seeks to duplicate itself by means of simulation, but it will nevertheless soon be gone, leaving behind an immense museum of artificial art and abandoning the field completely to advertising.
A dizzying eclecticism of form, a dizzying eclecticism of pleasure - such, already, was the agenda of the baroque. For the baroque, however, the vortex of artifice has a fleshly aspect. Like the practitioners of the baroque, we too are irrepressible creators of images, but secretly we are iconoclasts - not in the sense that we destroy images, but in the sense that we manufacture a profusion of images in which there is nothing to see. Most present-day images - be they video images, paintings, products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized images - are literally images in which there is nothing to see. They leave no trace, cast no shadow, and have no consequences. The only feeling one gets from such images is that behind each one there is something that has disappeared. The fascination of a monochromatic picture is the marvellous absence of form - the erasure, though still in the form of art, of all aesthetic syntax. Similarly, the fascination of trans sexuality is the erasure - though in the form of spectacle - of sexual difference. These are images that conceal nothing, that reveal nothing - that have a kind of negative intensity. The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence. Just as Byzantine icons made it possible to stop asking whether God existed - without, for all that, ceasing to believe in him.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“And I believe our sorrow was the more intense because nobody else seemed to share it. They were disgusted, amused, shocked, outraged, or even excited by the story. But we listened for the one who would say, "Poor little girl," or "Poor baby," but there was only head-wagging where those words should have been. We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“The simulation of Western values is universal once one gets beyond the boundaries of our culture. Is it not true, though, that in our heart of hearts we ourselves, who are neither Alakaluf nor Aboriginal, neither Dogon nor Arab, fail signally to take our own values seriously? Do we not embrace them with the same affectation and inner unconcern - and are we not ourselves equally unimpressed by all our shows of force, all our technological and ideological pretensions? Nevertheless, it will be a long time before the utopian abstraction of our universal vision of differences is demolished in our own eyes, whereas all other cultures have already given their own response - namely, universal indifference.”
Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
“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.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Where you need to be calm, you burst out in rage, and where you need to be on fire, you remain indifferent.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Madness for humanity is true sanity, and sanity through indifference is utter insanity.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“His stomach turned inside out, like a glove, and he vomited.
It wasn't disagreeable at all. Almost like a liberation, in fact. A kind of suicide, in a way. These particles of matter that showered from his mouth, after he had thought them consumed and digested, did not disgust him. No, he was completely indifferent to them; and to everything else, for that matter. It was only when he vomited that he could be indifferent even to life itself.”
Source: The Tenant
“From the realization of oneness rises the desire for justice - from the realization of oneness rises the desire for equality - from the realization of oneness rises the desire for unification. And do not confuse the realization of oneness to be a comforting experience, for the moment you become one with the rest of humanity, is the moment the sleeplessness and restlessness begin. Because once your mind is one with humanity it can't rest in peace till it sees the sufferings, disparities and discriminations alleviated. And remember, better sleepless for justice than soulless in indifference - better sleepless for equality than soulless in apathy - better sleepless for harmony than soulless in complacency.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Indifference is convenience but equality is necessity, and sometimes we have to give up our convenience to make way for the necessity.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Synthetic Civilization (The Sonnet)
The watchwords of civilization,
Are reason and inclusion.
Yet we live by the golden rules,
Of rigidity and exclusion.
We dress up in fancy clothes,
To feel powerful and important.
Beneath the lies of civilization,
Beats a heart most impotent.
We boast proudly about equality,
Unaware of our biases most inane.
We admire the rights of our own,
Rights of others are business of the UN.
Enough of this make belief ascension.
It’s time to humanize our synthetic civilization.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“Once she had thought belief depended on inclination. But she fought against this new realization as hard as she could, trying to shut out the future as before she had shut out the past; yet still it gained ground. It mingled with her daily life, with the war, with the winter, until it scarcely seemed a separate thing at all, but merely a state of mind produced by living alone, living in England and all the rest of it. She deeply hoped it was. There were times when it seemed a trivial and shallow depression. And there were times when the fear of it touched her as cold as wet steel: when she could see herself hardly aware that she was unhappy, because her feelings had so nearly atrophied, and receiving no compensations in return.”
“Technically, under the Golden Rule, you wouldn’t have to do anything for anybody and you would still be in the clear. But that merely stops the transference of evil with you. It’s just indifference. If the evil stopped with you, and there was no good to push it out, then that evil is still inside you.”
Source: In Limbo
“You want revolution? Then dismantle all indifference and stand up - stand up and do not move - do not move from your conviction of justice - do not move from your conviction of equality - do not move from your conviction of humanity - do not move an inch - even if all the artilleries in the world are charged against you - do not move and do not harm - just stand - keep standing - keep standing like a pillar of insanity - an insanity for sanctity - an insanity for serenity - an insanity for unity - let them break every single bone in your body - let all the blood in your veins pour out - let every trace of life seep out of your wounds - but still do not move - till there is a single kernel of life left in you. This is what revolution looks like - this is what civilized revolution looks like - no guns, no bombs, not even a baton, just a whole lot of determination, that even the mighty gods cannot deter - a revolution that turns an animal world into a human world - a revolution that turns a jungle into a modern society – a revolution that turns distance into unity.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Indifference is silent, so is realization, but the difference between the two is that the silence of indifference sustains a life of complacency, whereas the silence of realization pours in your veins such courage that you no longer are able to maintain indifference of any sort - wherever and whenever you see injustice and discrimination you leap in revolution - you leap with a strong conviction of equality and humaneness - you leap in an act of revolution.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“A civilized world is built by concerned and caring brothers and sisters, not by cold and indifferent strangers.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“The dream of identity ends in indifference.
What can be read between the lines of these stories is that chance and destiny are not to be found elsewhere, in some imaginary decree.
Chance is already present in the unpredictability of ordinary life. There is nothing more unpredictable than any moment of daily life.
All one needs to do is to acknowledge immediately the non-existence of this individual structure, and to recognize that the ego exists only in the showing-through [transparition] of the world and all its most insignificant possibilities.
It is no use wondering where freedom or identity lies and what is to be done with them. Human beings are the coming-to-pass of what they are and what they do.
Therein lies the movement of becoming, and what they wanted to be is not an issue; their ideals or free will are not an issue: these are merely retrospective justifications.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Here lies the total abstraction and the source of all domination: in the breakdown of the dual relation.
The strategy of domination is, indeed, to ensure that, through all the techniques of communication, through inescapable, streaming information, there can no longer be any response. It is a domination by signs empty of meaning. But, on the other side, there is an equal indifference and blank resistance.”
Source: The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
“Sonnet of Breath
The heart holds a breath,
A breath that is indivisible.
Yet we rarely take it in,
For we are raised as vegetable.
We are seeking joy here and there,
Yet there's an ocean of it within us.
It's a joy that comes alive when we care,
At the sight of selfishness it disappears.
Intimacy breeds stability and serenity,
But not the one that thrives on body.
Intimacy that's chaste and unifying,
Manifests only in innocent amity.
Human mind is the source of all ascension.
We are the origin of all civilized creation.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I'm no expert, but in my limited experience, women aren't born women. They start out as girls. And every girl, from the moment they can dream, imagines the rescue. The knight. The castle. Life in a fairy tale. If you don't believe me, watch boys and girls on a playground. No one teaches us to do this. The kid in us actually believes in things that are too good to be true. Before life convinces us we can't and they're not.
Then life kicks in. Boys become men. Girls become women. For any number of reasons we are wounded and, sadly, wounded people wound people. So many of us grow into doubting, hopeless, callous adults protecting hardened hearts. Medicating the pain. Life isn't what we imagined. Nor are we. And we didn't start out trying to get there. Far from it. But it's who we've become. One day we turn around, and what we once dreamed or hoped is a distant echo. We've forgotten what it sounded like. Once pure and unadulterated, the voice of hope is now muted by all the stuff we've crammed on top of it. And we're okay with that. For some illogical reason, we stand atop the mine shaft of ourselves, shoving stuff into the pipe that is us, telling our very soul, 'Shut up. Not another word.' Why? Because the cry of our heart hurts when unanswered. And the longer it remains unanswered, the deeper the hurt. In self-protection we inhale resignation and exhale indifference.
[Murphy Shepherd]”
Source: The Letter Keeper
“ক্লাশভর্তি উজ্জ্বল সন্তান, ওরা জুড়ে দেবে ফুলস্কেফ সমস্ত কাগজ!
আমি বাজে ছেলে, আমি লাষ্ট বেঞ্চি, আমি পারবো না!”
Source: আবুল হাসানের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা
“Every nation has nuts, just like every nation has heroes. The problem is, we wish someone else to be the hero, so that our sleep is undisturbed!”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky. This sense of being abandoned, which might in time have given characters a finer temper, began, however, by sapping them to the point of futility.”
Source: The Plague
“Sobre su espalda y sus costados arrastraba consigo por todas partes hilos, pelos, restos de comida... Su indiferencia hacia todo era demasiado grande como para tumbarse sobre su espalda y restregarse contra la alfombra, tal como hacia antes varias veces al día.”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“OR give me praise or give me blame
Each I would learn to bear,
But teach me not that hateful name
Indifference to hear.”
Source: The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations
“A martyred look accompanied this reply, belying her air of passionless indifference.”
Source: God Knows
“I ain't in the state of mind where I give a darn.”
Source: The Flying U's Last Stand
“Where there is accountability, there is action, where there is indifference, there is prayer.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“No Compromise (The Sonnet)
Only cowards make compromise,
When it comes to affairs of humanity.
Beings of conscience and character,
Prefer revolution over indignity.
Only bugs bow before oppression,
Driven by insecurity and indifference.
Creatures called the homo sapiens,
Choose annihilation before compliance.
Only wild animals of the cruel jungle,
Accept self-preservation as the norm.
For advanced organism such as humans,
Inclusion is life in joy and in storm.
Those with backbone stand up for humanity.
Unarmed and unbending we'll conquer inhumanity.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“Either you are stir-crazy for reform or you are crazy complacent and calling the doers crazy.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Power to people doesn't mean power, it means responsibility.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Crazy Not Callous (The Sonnet)
I'm crazy,
But not obnoxious.
I'm free in mind,
But not callous.
I'm ignorant in many things,
But I ain't no intolerant.
I may not know much etiquette,
I know caring with commitment.
I am but a lover most naïve,
No scholar of nothin'.
I am but a warrior unbending,
Got no time for philosophizin'.
To live for people is the mission.
In lifting the fallen lies salvation.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Wake up from indifference and be the final solution.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Break Destiny (The Sonnet)
Be the one to make and break destiny,
For all powers of universe are in you.
Be the one to make and break paradigm,
For the very source of creation is you.
Cowards and vegetables talk of fate,
While the valiant is up and working.
Those who can't do mock the doer,
Yet there's no progress without a dingaling.
If taking a stand makes you a nutcase,
Be the nuttiest case that has ever walked.
But never you compromise with insanity,
Even if it is endorsed by the whole world.
You are the defender of all society.
Even in hardship never forget your duty.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Vegetables can mock all they want. I shall die building the golden world.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Cowards and vegetables talk of fate, while the valiant is up and working.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Better be an impractical fool with warmth, than a dead ribcage without a heart. Better be a law-defying bad samaritan, than a complacent bag of lard.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Society is ours, so are its troubles. Walk as the only human amongst vegetables.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“O my coward heart, be coward no more, you've been a doormat enough, now be a lovedoor!”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 49
Vegetables have destiny,
Humans have responsibility.
Vermin have luxury,
Humans have simplicity.
Nightcrawlers have insecurity,
Humans have dignity.
Bedbugs have stability,
Humans have community.
Donkeys have self-love,
Humans have self-annihilation.
Horses have competition,
Humans have revolution.
Fancy castles of glass belong in fairy-story.
No time to rest, we have too much duty.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Alien is not one from a different planet, alien is one who has no responsibility towards the people of this planet.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Why stay silent, why stay asleep, why - why - why - no more - no more - wake up, wake up from indifference, wake up from practicality, wake up from mystical moronism - wake up and take charge - take charge with conscience, courage and compassion - throw all nonsense of magic, dogma and habit overboard, and stand up with a fresh breeze of reason and clarity in your heart. Only then - I repeat, only then shall the world know true progress - only then shall the world know true humanity.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“No good could come from a nicotine induced introspection save for the prospect of an early death, something he was not entirely opposed to. In fact, the ambivalence he held for such definitive states, alive and dead, even surprised him. Life wasn’t all it was pumped up to be and death wouldn’t be as nice as people claimed it to be.”
Source: Tales of the Sibling Not-So-Grim
“Peace happens when we happen.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“Such are the incalculable effects of that negative passion of indifference, that hysterical and speculative resurrection of the other.
Racism, for example. Logically, it should have declined with the advance of Enlightenment and democracy. Yet the more hybrid our cultures become, and the more the theoretical and genetic bases of racism crumble away, the stronger it grows. But this is because we are dealing here with a mental object, an artificial construct, based on an erosion of the singularity of cultures and entry into the fetishistic system of difference. So long as there is otherness, strangeness and the (possibly violent) dual relation -- as we see in anthropological accounts up to the eighteenth century and into the colonial phase -- there is no racism properly so-called. Once that `natural' relation is lost, we enter into a phobic relationship with an artificial other, idealized by hatred. And because it is an ideal other, this relationship is an exponential one: nothing can stop it, since the whole trend of our culture is towards a fanatically pursued differential construction, a perpetual extrapolation of the same from the other.
Autistic culture by dint of fake altruism.
All forms of sexist, racist, ethnic or cultural discrimination arise out of the same profound disaffection and out of a collective mourning, a mourning for a dead otherness, set against a background of general indifference -- a logical product of our marvellous planet-wide conviviality.
The same indifference can give rise to exactly opposite behaviour. Racism is desperately seeking the other in the form of an evil to be combated. The humanitarian seeks the other just as desperately in the form of victims to aid. Idealization plays for better or for worse. The scapegoat is no longer the person you hound, but the one whose lot you lament. But he is still a scapegoat. And it is still the same person.”
Source: The Perfect Crime