Gallantry doesn’t mean sleeping with people, gallantry means standing by the helpless, the discriminated, the downtrodden and the forgotten, even if it means going against an entire army.
Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.
Human is the one who’s kind – human is the one who’s gentle – human is the one who’s courageous – human is the one with conscience ample.
The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it turns an ordinary biological creature into a unique moral being of conscience.
Imagine me on my knees in front of you – bowing before your feet – and I say – I beg you, break the cycle now.
Right now the first and foremost priority of the entire humankind must be to plank the curve through self-isolation.
A conscientious man, Muslim or otherwise, would never abuse his wife and then resort to the scripture to justify his actions. But a fundamentalist caveman would gloriously beat his wife whenever he likes and shamelessly quote from Quran to rationalize his monstrosity.
Disparities in the world are the reflection of the disparities within us.
In this human world, the misery of the humans can only be lifted by the humans, who are courageous and conscientious enough to take real actions, instead of meekly hoping and praying for an illusory divine intervention.
Most religious scriptures are all about three apparently glorifying elements, -man, man and man.
The future belongs to only those who would attain excellence in the field of their own choice.
Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius – the speed of light is around 300,000 kilometers per second – the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old – modern day chimps are the closest cousins of us humans. These are irrefutable universal truth, regardless of what anyone believes.
We study humans to give them a healthier and happier life.
There’s no such thing as a genuine psychic – there are psychics who con others and those who con themselves.
The purpose of a belief is self-preservation.
Computers are programmed, so are the humans, but the computers can’t act outside their programming, whereas the humans can.
There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.
Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.
If you really, truly, genuinely care about the people around you, then throw away all that vengeance and hatred, and say to yourself – “no one shall have to feel what I have felt – no one shall have to bear the pain that I have borne – not on my watch”.
Even though the world hails Joan of Arc as some sort of hero, which she undoubtedly was, what pains me the most is that her pathological condition ultimately led to her demise at the age of only nineteen.