“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
“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It… — Max Lerner 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
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“How many more Christs, Buddhas, Tolstoys, Kings, Naskars have to rise, for humanity to have the revelation that, humanism is the greatest… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well… — Thomas Jefferson 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
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
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