Humanist Quotes · Page 4

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

— Patti Smith

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

— Ray Fearon

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

— Irving Babbitt

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

— Pat Robertson

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

— Erich Fromm

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

— Bill Hicks

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Doesn't take much to look human, two eyes, two ears, one nose, couple of limbs here and there, and you're done, but…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first…

— Abhijit Naskar

“How many more Christs, Buddhas, Tolstoys, Kings, Naskars have to rise, for humanity to have the revelation that, humanism is the greatest…

— Abhijit Naskar

To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all…

— Corliss Lamont

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long…

— Anonymous

I was brought up in a Jewish home, but I was brought up to be human - not fanatical, which is something…

— Marcel Marceau

At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.

— Julianne Moore

People find it difficult to call Lars' movies feminist. But they're humanist movies because they show a woman going through life and…

— Stacy Martin

“Failing to be American (The Sonnet) I've tried to rekindle the American sentiment of my early days of writing, but in vain.…

— Abhijit Naskar

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist…

— Julian Huxley

The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we…

— Claudia Rankine

“The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate,…

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm a humanist. I always believed, even with Cirque du Soliel, that this is my way to contribute to a better world.…

— Guy Laliberte

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in…

— Peter Singer

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

— Patti Smith

“Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

— Christopher Dawson

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

— Leo Tolstoy

“...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]”

— Anonymous

“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

— Sandra Bernhard

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

— John Adams

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

— Taslima Nasrin

“This Humanist whom no belief constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.”

— Anonymous

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

— Saul Alinsky

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

— Timothy Keller

“Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person.”

— Abhijit Naskar