Humanist Quotes
102 quotes by 83 authors
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress,…
— Irving Babbitt
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians.…
— Louis Kronenberger
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The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
— Charles M. Schulz
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I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
— Sandra Bernhard
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're…
— Mark Thomas
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Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together…
— Rebecca Goldstein
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I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
— Sarah Jessica Parker
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To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a…
— Suzanne Vega
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It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they…
— Rowan Williams
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I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.
— Lydia Lunch
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Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify…
— Pat Buchanan
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Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own…
— Corliss Lamont
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The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we…
— Paul Kurtz
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Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions…
— Elbert Hubbard
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To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this…
— Corliss Lamont
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
— Thomas Jefferson
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For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy…
— Corliss Lamont
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