Humanist Quotes

102 Humanist quotes by 83 unique authors

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its… — Corliss Lamont
The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations -… — Carl Sagan
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most… — Peter Singer
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as… — Edgar Lee Masters
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute… — Corliss Lamont
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in… — Isaac Asimov
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of… — John Stuart Mill
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they may be as… — Corliss Lamont
To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure… — Archibald Cox
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the… — James Davison Hunter
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. — Kurt Vonnegut
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. — Saul Alinsky
Power is the flower of organization. — A. Philip Randolph
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental… — Ralph Nader
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions… — Corliss Lamont
This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained. — J. V. Cunningham
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist. — Julianne Moore
I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that… — George Grosz
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. — Christopher Dawson
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one — Christopher Dawson
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must… — Daniel Barenboim

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