International Relations Quotes

“War ain’t peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Chasing a butterfly with a hammer. - On Uncouth Diplomacy”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“Secret agreements between the Saudis and various U.S. presidents dated back to the early postwar era and continued into the twenty-first century. Thanks to a pact between President Harry Truman and King Ibn Saud in 1947, the United States vowed to come to Saudi Arabia's defense if it was attacked. Likewise, in 1963, President Kennedy sent a squadron of fighter jets to protect Saudi Arabia when Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser attempted to kill members of the Saudi royal family.”
― Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

“My heart is too grand to be confined within the pages of a puny passport.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“If the anti-vaxxers are conspiracy nuts, which they sure are, so are the politicians, who keep dumping billions and billions of dollars in defense contracts out of sheer primitive insecurity instead of working to organize peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Lasting planetary peace cannot be attained by chasing after petty nationalistic insecurities. For that we must be whole, whole human beings. Individual wholeness brings individual nonsectarianism, and individual nonsectarianism brings global unification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“War Ain’t Peace (The Sonnet)

Hudson, Thames, Nile and Sindhu,
All are now red with the blood of the innocent.
Who is to blame for such catastrophe,
Everybody who accepts arms race as upliftment.
Suited savages have seduced them to believe,
That bigger the military greater the pride.
It’s necessary for politicians to sell nationalism,
Or else their loyal subjects will all get untied.
Acts of national security only breed insecurity,
Which forces people to seek comfort in weapons.
True, lasting stability and serenity of a nation,
Comes only from a universal desire for union.
Let the politicians sell war in the name of peace.
Why must the citizens buy it like rats chasing cheese!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“It’s necessary for politicians to sell nationalism, or else their loyal subjects will all get untied.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“Politicians don't cause war, citizens do.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Sonnet Earthistan

Earthistan is not a place,
Earthistan is a people,
People who've forgotten borders,
Who ain't no sectarian sheeple.
Earthistan is not a nation,
It is but the spirit of expansion,
A spirit that loves each and all,
And knows no discrimination.
Earthistan is not geography,
It is but the oneness of mind,
Where nobody's superior or inferior,
Where nobody is left behind.
As citizens divided long we've practiced savagery.
Awake, Arise and get to work, Oh Brave Earthistani!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Beyond Inclusion (The Sonnet)

It is not really inclusion that we must aim for,
Rather we must work to outgrow the need for inclusion.
It is not really global harmony that we must aim for,
We must outgrow the very term international relations.
It is not really a reform in policy that we must aim for,
Rather we must aim to outgrow the need for policy aids.
It is not really social awareness we must aim to advocate,
Rather we must be the living epitome of social oneness.
It is not a flea market of parties that we must aim to build,
Rather we must turn the very term partisanism obsolete.
It is not a junkyard of ideologies that we must aim to raise,
Absorbing good from all, let us stop being ideological elites.
Plenty of time we have wasted on arguments of philosophy.
Now let's go out on the streets and soil to get our hands dirty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“As citizens divided long we've practiced savagery. Awake, Arise and get to work, Oh Brave Earthistani!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Smoking kills, because people buy cigarettes. Alcohol kills, because people buy alcohol. War kills, because people buy war.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Peace won't come from Washington, Moscow, Brussels or Geneva. It can only come from the dust and dirt of the streets that we the people walk on every single day of our ordinary yet alive existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“World peace is not an absence of world conflicts, world peace is the absence of civilian indifference towards world conflicts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, 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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“War prevails because we the customer keep buying it - sometimes in the name of faith, sometimes culture and other times nationality. Enough I say! Enough!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Diplomacy is actually code for deceit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Gone are the days of nationalistic insecurity. Lo the time comes for expansion of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“Family is the world to most people, but to me the world is family.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers

“THE STRATEGIC CONSEQUENCES OF CHINESE RACISM: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States
Draft Report
Submitted 7 January 2013
Project Number: HQ006721370003000

Since our genus Homo first evolved in the Pliocene, humans have favored those who are biologically related. In general, the closer the relationship, the greater the preferential treatment. The vast majority of animals behave in this way, and humans are no different. In a world of scarce resources and many threats, the evolutionary process would select nepotism, thus promoting the survival of the next generation. However, this process is relative. Parents are more willing to provide for their own children than for the children of relatives, or rarely for those of strangers.

The essence of an inclusive fitness explanation of ethnocentrism, then, is that individuals generally should be more willing to support, privilege, and sacrifice for their own family, then their more distant kin, their ethnic group, and then others, such as a global community, in decreasing order of importance. ...

The in-group/out-group division is also important for explaining ethnocentrism and individual readiness to kill outsiders before in-group members. Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt draws on psychologist Erik Erikson’s concept of “cultural pseudo speciation,” and says that in almost all cultures humans form subgroups usually based on kinship; these “eventually distinguish themselves from others by dialect and other subgroup characteristics and go on to form new cultures.” ...

When an individual considers whether to support a larger group, several metrics are available. One of these ... is ethnocentrism, a continuation of one’s willingness to sacrifice for one’s family because of the notion of common kinship. As I discussed above, the ways humans determine their relations with unrelated individuals are complex, but the key factors are physical resemblance, as well as environmental causes like shared culture, history, and language. ...

I have shown that in-group/out-group distinctions like ethnocentrism and xenophobia are not quirks of human behavior in certain settings. Instead, they are systematic and consistent behavioral strategies, or traits. They apply to all humans... They are widespread because they increased survival and reproductive success and were thus favored by natural selection over evolutionary history. ...

Chinese racism ... is a strategic asset that makes a formidable adversary. ... The government educates the people to be proud of being Han and of China. In turn, the Chinese people are proud and fiercely patriotic as well as ethnocentric, racist, and xenophobic. This aids the government and permits them to maintain high levels of popular support. ...”
― Anonymous

“please tell me what you want
i am prepared to listen to you
perhaps i can even help you
if you could also listen to me”
― Wald Wassermann

“WORLD means We On Road of Love and Determination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“The radioactive material from one nuclear warhead can power over two thousand households for a year. Instead of wasting such potent resources on fancy, frivolous and fictitious geopolitical insecurities, let us redirect those resources to alleviate actual human suffering from society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“There is no world peace, so long as fear is off the leash.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a button we can destroy it all in a day. Let us not press the button my friend. In fact, if we must destroy something let us destroy the very button of destruction, both from outside and inside.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“If you really want peace, what is there to talk about? It’s when you really don’t want peace, that you want to keep holding talks of peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“No politician in power will ever advocate for nuclear disarmament - that's a fact. The so-called leaders of the world feel about nukes the same way gun-owning apes of America feel about their guns. That's why you won't find any of them talking in favor of nuclear disarmament. I’m not saying that they are all bad people, the world leaders that is, but peace requires guts, and guts requires character, and character requires an absolute denial of diplomacy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather

“War is expensive, peace is free, yet war is petty, peace is priceless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“War is expensive, peace is free.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination