“A secular humanist can be liberal or conservative, pro-abortion or anti-abortion, or belong to different political parties.” — Jimmy Clay Copy Share Image
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The world does not need more pestilential misogynistic pricks to Christianize, Muslimize or basically dogmatize the society – the world needs passionate… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
“World needs love that transcends body. World needs truth that transcends belief. World needs honor that transcends wealth. World needs order that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Reason is fundamental, but there is a difference between militant, imperial rationalism and human reason, develop your character till you can tell… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“What is Science, What is Holy (Sonnet) There is no greater spiritual journey than the rejection of prejudice, there is no greater… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the… — Leon Wieseltier Copy Share Image
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine:… — Patti Smith 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
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When the Human walks, the soil revives, forgotten streets all come to life - with every step, with every beat, Awake, Arise,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle, than by a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they… — John Braine Copy Share Image
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind .… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana Copy Share Image
It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
“Don’t harm either fanatics (militant atheists and religious fanatics), don’t cuss them, just bring them flower, and wish them a swift recovery!” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The other-worldly meanings medieval people found in their lives were no more deluded than the modern humanist, nationalist and capitalist meanings modern… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human. My priority is not to peddle any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at… — Stromae Copy Share Image
“How will you know you’ve realized love? When people no longer appear at a distance. When they no longer appear as people,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I think I'm a humanist. I believe all humans should have equal rights to live, express, flourish, love and dissent, irrespective of… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect… — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . .… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
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