“They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and… — J. I. Packer 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
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
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
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 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
“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
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Humanism had begun in Florence, Italy, about 20 years before the invention of the printing press. Many scholars there were astonished at… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but… — Steve Allen 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Holy Mica, we were true humanists over there, on Earth. Humanism was the backbone of our personalities; in our worship of Man,… — Boris Strugatsky 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
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War,… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
![“Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and…” quote by Fred Edwords](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/fred-edwords-80428_altered_though-we-humanists-take-a-strict-positi_2300891.jpg)
