“...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much… — Lisa Lowe Copy Share Image
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner 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
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the… — Vladimir Putin 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
I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
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
“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
“We've evolved from the jungle, violence is in our DNA. That's not up for debate, it's a biological fact. Question is, will… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale.… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Don't assume you understand Naskar, unless you've left your seat to the elderly on a bus, joined the religious festivities of a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say… — Mike White Copy Share Image
“Human is a pious promise, not host to parasitic paranoia. Earth is my homerock, sky is my robe - End of tribe… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To understand me, you have to listen as a human, not as believer or nonbeliever, but as human.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“If you could finish even half of what I've written, you'd either hate me enough to kill, or you'd be so massive… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
