Browse 251 quotes about Reformer.
“Buddhas, Christs and Mevlanas don't live in caves, they walk amongst you. You know why? Because we cannot change the world from the sidelines. You may play the make believe of nonattachment all you want - and it may bring you personal comfort for the time being, but it doesn't alleviate human suffering from the world one bit.
The enlightenment bit is a small part of the equation. How you live afterwards determines the true worth of that enlightenment. If your idea of enlightenment revolves around some prehistoric routine of sitting and chanting, or crouching and praying, then such enlightenment is no enlightenment, but derangement.”
Source: Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One
“My divinity is not rooted
in god or scripture,
my divinity is rooted
in human welfare.
My science is not rooted
in cold logic venture,
my science is rooted
in human welfare.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Either you succumb to the world, or expand so vast that the world succumbs to you.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“I'm a reformer, not influencer.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Where God retreats,
Human must step in.
Where myths fall short,
Mind must intervene.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Citizen is The Leader (Sonnet)
I have made a few amendments in my own canon,
I don't mean going back and removing passages,
as if they never existed, for that's deception,
rather I point out my errors myself, so you know,
I ain't infallible, on occasion I have been wrong.
My main two mistakes were with America 'n soldiers,
I looked upon both with respect in my early years,
until it dawned on me, America is a terrorist state,
and all soldiers are mere puppets to warmongers.
All governments are a facade,
all politicians are merely actors.
In a civilized world citizen is the leader,
obsolete is the profession of world leaders.
In a civilized world I could spend my days writing
mushy poetry, sparing the headache of human rights.
But alas, that is not the case, hence, I'm restless,
sleepless, vacationless, in kindling the human light.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“I don't see the turn of the universe, I cause the universe to turn.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Duniya meri, zimmedari meri.”
“The intellectual idiots don't understand anything simple, unless it is presented in their savage ism-istic fashion. That's why I coined the term "gentalist" in my last work - to refer to the individuals with an insurmountable concern for people over isms - over all sorts of sectarianism. To put it simply, a gentalist is just a plain human whose foremost priority is to be human, above all cultural, political, religious, intellectual and ideological barbarism. In fact, every gentalist is a human, but not every human is a gentalist.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“I am a scientist, but don't make the mistake of thinking of me as yet another shaky scientist. Before I was a scientist, I was a monk - before I was a monk, I was an engineering student – and even before that I was a martial artist. So be very careful, for there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded scientist. Science is literally the only super power in the world. And I’ve been playing with science, before I could speak english. When my teenage peers were obsessing over getting high, I was obsessed with building circuits. I gave it all up, because society has plenty innovators, but zero reformer scientist.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“The echoes of a radical idea could gain decibels as time passes.”
“I have never been a good son, I'll never be a good partner, and definitely not a good parent, for I am a martyr - I am a martyr for humanity.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Break the chains,
Take off the blinkers.
The whole world awaits,
For it needs to be tinkered.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“You are the illusion,
you are the truth.
When evil hangs heavy,
you gotta blow your fuse.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Wanna lead the world? First learn about the world - get so lost in the struggles of each and every people of planet earth, that you forget where you came from altogether - get so lost in the struggles of the people of earth, that for the first time in life you start to breathe as a whole human being - get so lost, that for the first time you see the light of dawn not as a puny slave to puny borders, but as the civilized maker of a civilized world.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Injustice is not allowed on my watch.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Final Human (The Sonnet)
Only animal I'm afraid of is myself,
When I'm scared, I lose control.
I am the height of violence extreme,
Kept tamed by conscience whole.
I am the maker of all law and order,
I decide what's right, what's wrong.
I am a grenade waiting to go off,
At the sight of humanity done wrong.
To the helpless I'm humility incarnate,
To the discriminated I'm love unbound.
To all intolerance I am judgment day,
To paranoid hate I'm piety paramount.
If I don't bulldoze your castles of prejudice,
Abhijit Vicdansaadet Naskar is not my name.
Till the last ounce of hate is obliterated,
The final human will emerge time and again.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Whenever morons 'n their yes men ruin harmony, whenever accountability is deemed as misdemeanor, embracing affliction, from the dust 'n dirt of soil 'n street, you the Milkyway Messiah is to rise as the sentient shield.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“I am not just me, I am the voice of millions of my repressed sisters and brothers, who have been exploited, alienated and tyrannized by the entitled bullies of the world through centuries - whether I live long or not, so long as I live, I'll live for them - I'll live for them, I'll work for them, I'll die for them.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“There's no social work, only family work.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Humanitarian fire is unputoutable.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 4
Raise your power in silence,
Become a dynamite of resilience.
Head high and chest emboldened,
March on with uncorrupt conscience.
Be the heart that loves and lifts,
Be the hand that shares might.
Feel the talk and talk the feel,
Be the mirror of sight beyond sight.
Be the first when no one comes,
Be the last when all are gone.
Be the one who sits not still,
Be the rays of a dutiful dawn.
You are the order you seek outside.
To be human is to put coldness aside.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 8
Give me a spark of your nerves,
I'll turn it into thunder strike.
Give me a tremor of your lips,
I'll turn it into landslide.
Give me a teardrop of your eyes,
I'll turn it into tsunami.
Give me the sweat of your labor,
I'll turn it into hydroelectricity.
Give me a beat of your heart,
I'll turn it into an earthquake.
Give me a touch of your fingers,
I'll turn it into society’s duct tape.
Ingredients of reform are born of your veins.
Renounce your apathy and reform will rain.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Honor He Wrote Sonnet 32
Don't wait up for destiny to happen to you,
Stand up and be the destiny of the world.
I didn't wait for the world to happen to me,
I stood up and happened to the world.
Sit no more holding out for a magical messiah,
All the world's magic is just human creation.
Magic is just code for human determination,
There is nothing paranormal, only dedication.
No more bowing in front of the altar of tradition,
Be a radical star and explode for your purpose.
Your light shall live on in people's memory,
As you pour out all life for the good of others.
Destiny and fate are constructs of fear and insecurity.
Conquer your fears and rise as the human almighty.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“The Gentalist Sonnet
I only ask one thing of my soldier – everything!
Give up all, so that those with nothing receive life.
What can I give to thee, except for this life of mine,
Says the brave gentalist across all personal strife.
Gente means people, and people are the music of life.
Love the people, lift the people, people are the way.
Not your people, not my people, it's all one people.
Once you feel it in your bones, uplift is on its way.
I don't believe in a messiah, I don't believe in a god,
‘Cause I’m far too accountable for my society, my world.
Thus speaks the gentalist, burning with a sense of duty,
Thus speaks the living aid, who ain’t no mythical lord.
If a chunk of alum can purify a bucket of putrid water,
Your heart can purify the world with its gentalist power.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“If a chunk of alum can purify a bucket of putrid water, your heart can purify the world with its gentalist power.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“To take life is easy, but to give life is what makes one human.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Awake, Arise, break yourself, and lo your light pours as divine help.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Be Unrealistic (The Sonnet)
Be unrealistic and work for a world,
That the society considers nonsense.
Once upon a time taming fire was unreal,
Then arose a bunch of brave sentience.
Today's madness is tomorrow's sanity,
If we’re mad enough to stand solo on guard.
Today's sacrifice is tomorrow's civilization,
If we can give all without hoping reward.
If only one person dies for the cause,
A hundred people realize their humanity.
I may die today in the line of duty,
But the struggle continues through eternity.
So let us be brave and go beyond reality.
Let us be accountable and do the necessary.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Be the messenger who is up and doing the work, not the vegetable that sleeps clinging to the messages of the past.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“You have to become a lovenut for society, for the society to turn civilized.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Social development is quite like memory consolidation in the human brain. Important memories meticulously get imprinted from old dying neurons to newly born neurons and unimportant memories fade away while making way for new memories to flourish. Such should be the course of societal progress.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Politicians come and politicians go, but reformers are eternal. And who is the reformer? Each and every human who is accountable for their society is the reformer.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“In times of disaster, be the armament to society, in times of celebration, be the ornament to society.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“We are the explorers of impossibility - we decide what is possible, not some tradition, constitution or factualization - not tradition, because traditions are habits of the past, and as such, are unqualified to dictate life of the present - not constitution, because that too is born of the past, and as such can never be taken as gospel - and not factualization, because a world run by facts alone may be suitable for the existence of cold, mechanical computers, but not warm and vulnerable human beings.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“My Golden Earth (The Sonnet)
O my golden earth,
I am but your stupid lover.
The flute of your dazzling fragrance,
Makes my agonies disappear.
Whenever your sky is cloudy,
My heart drowns in drought.
Whenever your oceans quiver,
With tears my eyes get fraught.
Whenever you giggle in prosperity,
It pours honey into my ears.
Whenever you shine with festivals,
Light and love erase my historic fears.
You are my home o my golden earth.
All your children are my sisters and brothers.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“The history of progress is a history of freaks.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“The helpless, forgotten, discriminated and destitute, are my brothers and sisters, and I won't stop, till I lift them up to take their rightful place upon the fabric of society, with my last blood drop.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“I do not want your blind and rigid loyalty towards my ideas, I want you to explore, I want you to expand, I want you to expand to such an extent that even my ideas become obsolete.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Every reformer is a public servant, but not every public servant is a reformer.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Worship of Chains (The Sonnet)
Enough with the worship of chains!
Enough with celebration of selfishness!
Time it is to shatter the altars of separation.
Time it is to be the ravager of primitiveness.
Let us hang all our sectarian gods and idols.
Let us start a new worship of love and liberty.
Let us be prophets and messengers of harmony.
Let us be disintegrated in realization of inclusivity.
Let us go insane and kick all prison-gates down.
Let us burn locks to ashes with flames of heart.
Let us call upon the vigor eternal from within.
Let us hunt down the last trace of inhuman dirt.
Let us draw a noble anatomy for civilization.
Let us lay ourselves as cornerstones of ascension.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Be the incorruptible comet of conscience and compassion, that cleanse this cockeyed world of all its cockiness.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Revolution means re-evolution, that is, constant evolution - it doesn't mean de-evolution, that is, backward evolution.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“The civilians have light, life and possibility, because of reformers who give up everything.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“To hell with the crown jewels, to hell with Fort Knox! You have something a billion times more valuable than all the treasures in the world. It is your human life. Give it up - give it up without a second's thought - give it up for those who have their back against the wall – those who are exploited, abused and alienated every single moment of their life – those who are pushed, and pushed, and pushed, by the materialistic world until they have nowhere to go. Give it up all for them. Show the world what a real king, a real queen looks like. Sacrifice makes one king or queen, not bloodline.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“I need no gun to defend the society.”
“My struggle is to end all struggles.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Now on, the revolution and all the future revolutions must continue without resorting to violence. I am not talking about simply nonviolence, I am talking about having an actual and utter repulsiveness towards violence. This is the fundamental requirement of a civilized revolution.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“If you want to lift the society, you must first wipe out the self.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“We cannot actually build the future, we have to be the future.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law