“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom –… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Start working my friend – start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans – conscientious humans, not some dumb… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“At a time when the continent’s total population was approximately 70 million, most of whom could neither read nor write, an estimated… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The most important idea he gleaned from the swift, learned talk was that religion and knowledge could exist side by side, enriching… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“The ideology of liberal humanism found expression in the earliest reviews of Hardy’s writing and remained a dominant force until the explosion… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“To be an original human, you must die to all labels. This death brings the real vitality in life. Now one may… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
Ideology to me is fundamentally is an elite pursuit. I mean most people are just not all that interested in single payer… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“Homo Sapiens Loses Control Can humans go on running the world and giving it meaning? How do biotechnology and artificial intelligence threaten… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
If you believe in what I do, which is secular humanism, I would find it extremely difficult to live with someone -… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Humanism is the affirmation of man as a free and responsible being. Nothing degrades man more than the proclamation of irresponsibility. Man… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Is the humanism intuitive or labored over?, the answer is: Yes. It begins intuitively, it becomes the reason for writing the thing,… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“Without the infinite personal God, all a person can do, as Nietzsche points out, is to make systems. In today's speech we… — Francis August Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Words can strengthen the weak, words can rejuvenate the meek - words can breathe life into the dead, words can unite the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Principle without practice is like raw meat, which is good to have in your kitchen, but basically useless until you cook it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image