[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You know what Human means? HUMAN means Harmonious across Hate, Undivided through Diversity, Mindful amidst Mindlessness, Amiable amidst Apathy, and Neighborly amidst… — 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
“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
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand,… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“Service Over Selfies Sonnet Awake, Arise O Timelords, Oh makers and breakers of destiny! Give this world accountability, And time will give… — 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
“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 am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
“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
My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Here, you take the Naskar Pen, now go lead with the Dream of the King - from fractured past to conscious dawn,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Be sure of your conviction, but not so sure that it overwhelms your humanity. No conviction should be ultimate, except the conviction… — 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
[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted… — Corliss Lamont 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
“The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth,… — Suzy Kassem 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
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;… — Mark Twain 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