Humanist Quotes

102 quotes by 83 authors

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
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. — Irving Babbitt
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
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
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' — Charles M. Schulz
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct. — Sandra Bernhard
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference. — Lydia Lunch
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
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
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
Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions… — Elbert Hubbard
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
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy… — Corliss Lamont

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