Browse 251 quotes about Reformer.
“We cannot wish a civilization to reality, we can only will it to reality.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Vegetables can mock all they want. I shall die building the golden world.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Society is ours, so are its troubles. Walk as the only human amongst vegetables.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Conscience is my CV,
Biodata, Bulldozer,
Revolution, my resume,
Citizenship, Earthistana.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Courage of the savage is in their weapon, courage of the reformer is in their conviction.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Humans Are Defined (The Sonnet)
Vegetables are defined,
By the comfort they crave,
Humans are defined,
By the obstacles they brave.
Absence of obstacles,
Is not a sign of achievement.
Absence of obstacles,
Indicates a lack of movement.
Even the mountains bow,
But not for self-absorbed snobs.
Oceans part making way,
Only for those not afraid of storms.
Awake, arise o soldier of valiance and valor.
Sleep not, slacken not, the world is in your care.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Robert Ingersoll's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of more value to posterity than all the sermons that were ever written on the doctrine of original sin... The genius for humor and wit and satire of a Voltaire, a wide amplitude of imagination, and a greatness of heart and brain that placed him upon an equal footing with the greatest thinkers of antiquity. He stands, at the close of his career, the first great reformer of the age.
{Thomas' words at the funeral of the great Robert Ingersoll}”
“You cannot lift the society by living on a pedestal, you must come down amidst the people.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Everywhere the man who alters things begins by liking things. And the real explanation of this success of the optimistic reformer, of this failure of the pessimistic reformer, is, after all, an explanation of sufficient simplicity. It is because the optimist can look at wrong not only with indignation, but with a startled indignation. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. The Court of Chancery is indefensible—like mankind. The Inquisition is abominable—like the universe. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action. The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”
Source: All Things Considered
“Society teaches you to find joy in the benefit of the self, as a result everyone grows up to be miserable, for the more you seek joy for yourself the more joy runs away from you, but the moment you forget the self and walk down the path of service to benefit others, joy comes running after you.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“I am disaster, blaster and master of destiny.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“I exist, when you exist – as the absolute epitome of humanness possible.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I conquered myself, then only I set out to conquer the world.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Humanitarian Behaviorism
(The Sonnet)
Give me a drop of love,
I'll shower you with monsoon.
Hit me with loads of hate,
I'll silently disappear soon.
I don't approve of hate in return,
I just walk away from wrong done to me.
Wrong done to another is another matter,
I am the bulldozer, if you are the bully.
I am a biologist and behaviorist after all,
I don't need to do harm to restrain harm.
Weaknesses of the apes are my common knowledge,
Where there is brain, there's no need for brawn.
Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“I don't care if my blood courses through your veins, I only care whether my ideas electrify your nerves. I don't give a damn if I leave no bloodly offspring, my sole objective is to leave behind godly bravehearts.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“My ethnicity is empathy,
My race is reform,
My nationality is oneness,
My name is human.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“We don't need to build a utopia, but that doesn't mean we have to accept this moronopia as the only world possible.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Giants in Jeans Sonnet 53
If you call me liberal,
You have understood nothing.
If you call me conservative,
You have understood nothing.
If you call me religious,
You have understood nothing.
If you call me atheist,
You have understood nothing.
If you call me communist,
You have understood nothing.
If you call me capitalist,
You have understood nothing.
You’ll never find me in your fancy ideology,
You'll know me by taking pain to wipe another's agony.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Not Woke, Only Accountable (A Sonnet)
I am no teacher but only lover,
I know no philosophy but amity.
I am no writer but only revolution,
I know no politics but serenity.
I am no thinker but only soldier,
I know no science but ascension.
I am no authority but only service,
I know no poetry but inclusion.
I am no humanist but only human,
I know no ideology but oneness.
I am no woke but only accountable,
I know no paradise but acceptance.
Taint not the mind with a puny label.
We are beautiful when we are indivisible.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Lovenut Sonnet
When I was a teenager,
There was a sticker on my desk.
My father had stuck it there,
Saying, till you reach your goal, don't rest.
Since that day I haven't stopped,
For I haven't reached my goal.
You may ask what the goal may be,
It is to die a lovenut lifting all.
Lovenut is one who is nuts,
Total bonkers for the benefit of society,
One whose lifeblood is sacrifice,
A revolutionary who is above all security.
I give a call to all the lovenuts of society.
Stop not till you remind all their humanity.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“I don't have time for mystical nonsense, I don't have time for intellectual argumentation - real problems of the world keep me busy enough.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I am not woke, I am just human - I am not socialist, I am just human - I am not wise, I am just human.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I died to myself and I live for society.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“If you are not ready to surrender in service at the feet of the helpless, don't tell anyone you are a human.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Whether there is a supreme almighty, is no concern of mine, all I care about is the upliftment of the humans by the humans - by me, you and by every single creature who calls themselves human.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“One life, one path, one anthem - sacrifice.”
“Sapiens is the saintly answer
to the clarion call of life,
True sapiens is saintly sapiens,
all else is desecration of life.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Mind is the tether between facts and science,
Mind is the line of life between words and poetry.
People are the tether between mind and meaning,
Soil is the tether between human and humility.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“I cannot write from within the pathetic boundaries of any one culture or any one language, for it'd be like asking the wind to blow in just one country.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“I am inclusion,
I am indivisible.
My struggle is unity,
Human and hate are incompatible.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“I'm Impossible (Sonnet 1272)
I don't need to play word games,
to say, impossible means I am possible;
my existence is epitome of the impossible.
I don't make plans, I make purpose,
then the purpose plans me, into unstoppable.
Does that mean, loneliness doesn't bother me,
Of course it does - it makes the torture worse.
Anybody who says, they enjoy loneliness,
is either lying or plain narcissistic retard.
But then again, just when I feel super gloomy,
I remember my responsibility to my world family.
Time and again, my purpose drags me out,
Electrifying my veins with incorruptible duty.
¡Viva la humanidad, viva la familia mundial!
Long live humanity, long live world family!
Whenever you are down, take refuge in purpose;
Your purpose will reawaken your invincibility.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“I am not a rockstar,
I am a reformer.
Rockstars get compromised,
Uncompromise is my character.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“A well-built character is heard around the world, even if it comes from the remotest of places, whereas a loudmouth without character isn't even heard two feet across no matter how much they shout.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“If you can help even one person become self-reliant, it's the greatest achievement of social reform.”
Source: Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
“Brave, The Sonnet
Say o brave, o soldier of eternal heights,
May I be decapitated before my head bows.
Say o brave, o explorer of impossibility,
May I feed another while my stomach growls.
Say o brave, o pedestrian of purity,
I obey no law for I'm the epitome of rightness.
Say o brave, o athlete of amor and amity,
I am sheer insanity exuding real saneness.
Say o brave, o bearer of benevolence,
I am disaster, blaster and master of destiny.
Say o brave, o vessel of valiance,
I devour fear, greed, pride and insecurity.
Say o brave, I am the seed of all assimilation,
The first one standing, earthquakin' egalitarian.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Ever Onward to Equality (The Sonnet)
Someone once said,
Ever onward to victory.
I say to you today,
Ever onward to equality.
Though the objective is the same,
In path lies the distinction.
I'll say it plainly, to live is to grow,
Including the means of revolution.
Liberty is fundamental in life,
But not by harming the innocent.
Revolution of arms is revolution no more,
What's needed is revolution in conscience.
So I say, let us sacrifice all for society.
Let us rise as soldiers of universal amity.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Homecoming Sonnet
Salutations to all, today is my homecoming,
To dwell in grief is treachery on life.
I sought plenty escape in translations,
but true ointment lies in the soil of life.
So I return, shattering shackles of sorrow -
Reignite me oh life, resuscitate me unto duty!
I want no more to sob through the alleys of pity -
Sanctify me oh divine nature, with renewed tenacity.
Today I break all spell of ominous cowardice,
Today I vivify my veins as the volcanic vanguard!
I refuse to be castrated by pathetic redundancy,
Today I revive my vows as defender of the world!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“You don't wake up to a better world, you toil through the dead of night, so the world wakes up civilized.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I don't need invite from some puny paradise;
Cosmos, my Shangri-la - me, the Servant King.
Odin doesn't wait up for Valhalla to call -
Valhalla, my empire - I am the World Viking!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I'm drunk with the spirit of sacrifice,
You can keep your puny bottled charisma.
In a world of broken glass and
cigarette buds, I am Amor Armada.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“World's light comes from your light,
It comes from the sacrifice of the few.
If these few ever became selfish,
Whole world would drown in dwindling dew.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Martyr's Dilemma
(An Existential Sonnet, 1349)
Abhijit Naskar are two, not one.
Abhijit the person, Naskar the mission.
Abhijit has dreams like an ordinary man,
While Naskar is the dream of world union.
Abhijit put his hopes and dreams away,
So that Naskar could engulf the world.
Abhijit even got dumped by the girl,
Because Naskar couldn't dump the world.
The question is, do I regret all this!
With all honesty - yes, I do on occasion.
All the vastness of Naskar isn't enough,
to make up for the things I missed out on.
The point is, it's okay to have regrets,
You ain't alive till you have regrets.
Yet I never abandoned my duty to the world,
For my mission is bigger than my regrets.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.
My life is a repository
of what is possible if you put
your petty tribalisms aside.
I leave this repository
in your capable hands -
draw from it as you will -
put it to use as you deem fit.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“I don't do anything for reward,
I do everything as a record,
a record of conviction -
a record of resilience -
a record of thunder -
a record of sentience.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Dream Before Genes (The Sonnet)
As a teenager I only had one dream - immortality,
not fame, not wealth, but immortality.
I wanted to live on long after my body had perished,
and with sheer conviction I made it a reality.
Tomorrow if I fall asleep, I shall sleep contented,
for my mission will live on galvanizing brave veins.
My only regret is, I never got to raise a family,
it's the bittersweet price a reformer has to pay.
Abi the person had to be sacrificed,
for Naskar the dream to become a reality.
Anyone who says, they have no regrets,
never dared to live up to their full capacity.
I offered up my youth to lift up the world,
even got dumped, while lost in world building.
My genes might die with me, not my dream -
One day, not long now, whole world will be kin.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim