“There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Humanists believe that God is the most important, influential literary character human beings have ever created.” — Greg M. Epstein Copy Share Image
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“How do humanists feel about Jesus? I say of Jesus, as all humanists do, “If what he said is good, and so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“We humanists try to behave as decently, as fairly, and as honorably as we can without any expectation of rewards or punishments… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“It is time for humanists and atheists, skeptics and agnostics to see they share a common future with the many who are… — Gretta Vosper Copy Share Image
I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
“After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the Universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A lot of humanists treat religion as if it were simply a kind of rival cosmological hypothesis, and that this is all… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
“In the days of Locke, Hume and Voltaire humanists argued that ‘God is a product of the human imagination’. Dataism now gives… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Hunting Down the Secular Humanists" "...What makes them so dangerous is that Secular Humanists look just like you and me. Some of… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring… — Steven Ozment Copy Share Image
“Still, what can thoughtful people and humanists do but struggle toward suitable words? Take me, for instance. I've been writing letters helter-skelter… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“WE SHOULD ALL BE HUMANISTS. So I had this conversation with a friend and I am of the view that, we need… — Magnus Nwagu Amudi Copy Share Image
“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“While cap-stoning what humanists were already doing in school, leading humanist John Dunphy stated in 1983: I am convinced that the battle… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many… — Michael Mullett Copy Share Image
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Remember that it's never a crime in the face of humanity and enlightenment to distribute the works of the great humanists among… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image