Social Responsibility Quotes

“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”
― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara

“The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.”
― Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd

“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”
― Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

“শিল্পীর সামাজিক দায়িত্ব সম্পূর্ণ আছে। সামাজিক দায়িত্ব যারা এড়িয়ে চলে তারাও সামাজিক দায়িত্ব পালন করছে। অর্থাৎ তারা ওপরতলার শুয়োরের বাচ্চাদেরকে সাহায্য করছে। সামাজিক দায়িত্ব প্রত্যেকেই পালন করছে।”
― Ritwik Ghatak, নিজের পায়ে নিজের পথে

“If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?”
― S Balaram

“Order is nothing but a friendship with chaos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Always remember that with privilege comes responsibility. You must go to Casa Azul and see the place you came from. Only then will you be able to understand how far you've come.”
― Sandra Rodriguez Barron, Stay with Me: A Novel

“It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?”
― Kim Hye-Jin, Concerning My Daughter

“The economy thrives when businesses prioritize social responsibility alongside profitability.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“I don't write for the vast majority of people who get excited very easily, then lose interest the next day. I write for those rare few jewelhearts who have the tenacity and backbone to dedicate their entire existence to a cause.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“To replace the sky god with a computer god isn't advancement. Real advancement is when nobody suffers from scarcity of sustenance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Weak justice system can overdose human rights crisis.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing are inherently familiar to humans, with the potential to reshape not only our social interactions but also human-computer interaction.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“If we lose our capacity or wish for the discovery of truth, we will lose our capacity to control our destiny, left to the wimp of our momentary emotions at best or to the power of self-interest groups that are driven by their wish for power and dominance.”
― Amitai Rosengart, Meaning in the Age of Absurdity

“Backbone responsible is antidote to malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Defend principle, not prejudice.
Support reformation, not rigidity.
Be responsible, not reckless.
Support correction, not conformity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“World is made in your image.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Seek yourself in the joy of neighbors,
You shall know the meaning of justice.
Seek yourself in smiles of the world,
You shall emerge as antidote to malice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Himalayan Sonneteer Sonnet 3

What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.

Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.

If we stay silent in indifference,
What's the point of all this electricity!
Nerves that carry not vigor but ice water,
Ain't no human nerves but sewers of society.

Human nerves are the life-circuit of society.
If they carry ice water, it is a catastrophe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.

Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Orwell believed in liberty above all else, but liberty in his view was predicated on an assumption of personal and social responsibility.”
― Laura Beers, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-first Century, Library Edition

“There is a social responsibility to discover the health techniques needed to recover from the long-term hypoxic damage we know as ‘Long COVID’ and ‘Altitude Sickness’.”
― Steven Magee

“In those dreamy years of lingering isolationism we Americans thought of both Asia and Europe as a museum of inanimate ruins. The history I was then witnessing could not be brought home "to sit on." The living humanity in the old world was far more important than its relics and its problems would affect the lives and fortunes of our own sons for man years to come.”
― Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning

“Any fundamental change in this system must begin with the concept of the individual as a maker of history, responsible for creating his social environment, convinced of his actions as historically significant, and therefore of how he thinks, feels, and judges, and the positions he takes on social issues as not only personally, but socially relevant.”
― Grace Boggs

“Somnolence leads to obsolescence, obsolescence leads to extinction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Proof of life is in standing guard.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“Advance of Human is advance of God. Wishful indolence is religion of the cod.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator