Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
“My priority is not to be called an atheist or believer, but to be human.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why… — Suzanne Vega 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
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
To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
It is imperative for many branches of fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in the path you walk, I'm only interested in how you behave along the way.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
“My Cosmic Soldiers (The Sonnet) Bloodline is of no consequence, We gotta pass on galvanizing ideas. I may quite easily die without… — 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
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
