Social Psychology Quotes

“Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“Vulnerability is a magnet for honesty, and honesty is the very basis of human connections.”
― Dr Salma Farook, What Your Soul Already Knows

“Our brains are built to help us function as members of a tribe.”
― Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score / Trauma and Recovery / Hidden Healing Powers

“Disinfect the world my friend – disinfect it with your thinking – disinfect it with your actions – disinfect it with your existence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is being moral, while in reality, the person may be committing the worst kind of immoral atrocities ever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“We have advanced from canoes to galleys to steamships to space shuttles - but nobody knows where we’re going. We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans seem to be more irresponsible than ever. Self-made gods with only the laws of physics to keep us company, we are accountable to no one. We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem, seeking little more than our own concord and amusement, yet never-ending satisfaction. Is there anymore more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Politicians of today are fragmented beings creating a fragmented world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

“The conflicts between science and religion still remain in this day and age, because though most people understand what science means, they do not have a clue what religion means – and they do not even have a clue that they do not have a clue.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“To be an original human, you must die to all labels.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“We're shameless in overlooking our own faults, but graceless in letting go another's.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Pero le repito, Llovizna: debemos olvidarnos de los malos y los buenos en este ejercicio de vivir. Ellos tienen un pensamiento, nosotros otro muy distinto. Eso no los hace mejores ni nos hace peores. Somos producto, tanto indios como blancos, de las imperfecciones que llevamos de rastras las personas.”
― Fernando Soto Aparicio, Los Hijos del Viento

“The world has loads of human bodies to relentlessly want for more and more despite having all. What the world lacks are real human beings, with veins of steel and heart of honey.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“In the society of humans, what is normal and what is not, is defined by not the reality or the truth whatsoever. It is defined by the society's innate knacks and beliefs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality

“Every time you as an original human take actions outside the norms of the neurotic society, the society most certainly gets baffled and quite instantaneously begins mocking you for your uniqueness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“Consumption is not bad, but when done at excessive proportions it turns out to be not just bad, but downright deadly for the self as well as the society, as the society itself is a collective functional expression of many selves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“We live in graves and call them home, and we further sustain the neurotic structure of those graves with elements of so-called sociological, cultural, traditional, religious, political and intellectual significance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“With enough support you can be as ignorant as you want”
― Gary Heymann, Trees Can't Talk - A Bedtime Story

“Deep resentment and passive dislike due to erroneous ideas are unsettling.”
― Amitav Chowdhury

“To be an original human, you must die to all labels. This death brings the real vitality in life. Now one may ask, how can one achieve it? And there is the problem of the so-called modern humans. They all want somebody to tell them, how to achieve something. Here is a fact, calculus can be taught, quantum physics can be taught, molecular biology can be taught, but not freedom of mind. And why do you need a path in the first place? If there is a bottle labeled poison, on the shelf, you don't just bring it down and drink the poison to know whether it will kill you. Likewise, once you really see the poisonous implications of the socio-culturally passed on labels, you simply tear them apart - throw them away as far as possible. Does one need to deceive oneself, to understand self-deception! If not, then why do you deceive yourself, by conforming to the social labels, be it a religious label, a non-religious label, a nationalist label, an intellectual label, or a gender label. You are a human - that's it.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Always being too nice to others, may prove disastrous many times.”
― Dr. Ashok Anand

“Every moment in life is a blessing, even if it bring tears or laughter. As a child of God, you should always keep Ecclesiastes 3:1 to mind.”
― Godspower Oparaugo, Wake Up: 100 Powerful Truths to Inspire and Motivate You for Success

“Life is like the pages of a book. You are free to read any page of your choice but remember, your success or failure depends on the page you have read.”
― Godspower Oparaugo, Wake Up: 100 Powerful Truths to Inspire and Motivate You for Success

“The mass only follows, regardless of what any naive thinker proclaims, because the mass as I said earlier, is not yet wise enough to take their own decisions. They despise manipulation consciously, yet subconsciously they crave for it. That is why they have so many gods in the first place. They just love the idea of somebody else deciding things for them, and it gives them a kind of comfort.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The society is neurotic – it is a fact – no conscientious creature can deny it. But my question to you is – what are you doing to obliterate this neuroticism for good?”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“The truth of this world is, majority of the human society takes nonsense to be sense and con-sense to be conscience.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“Each national group deserves its political system. The characteristics of the political system are automatically determined by the political and social psychology of the ethnic group, even if in this group this system may seem unpopular at first sight.”
― Elmar Hussein

“The social environment interacts with brain chemistry. Manipulating a monkey into a lower position in the dominance hierarchy made his serotonin drop, while chemically enhancing serotonin elevated the rank of former subordinates.”
― Bessel Van Der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score / Trauma and Recovery / Hidden Healing Powers

“The purpose of the pattern is to serve the humans, but today's so-called modern society takes the pattern to be of more value than the human, henceforth it makes slaves out of the humans to serve the pattern - and that's where all the troubles of the society begin - then to eliminate those troubles the humans create more patterns - thus the humans get ever-lastingly swallowed by the authoritarianism of patterns.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“If you just become some new cruel people, because you have been treated with cruelty by some old cruel people, and start treating others with cruelty, then they will end up becoming the new cruel people who will lead to many more generations of cruelty and violence. So, the cycle must break with you. Break the cycle my friend - break the cycle of violence, break the cycle of racism, break the cycle of bigotry. That's the only way all humans can live in peace.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity