Best Humanist Sayings

102 Humanist quotes by 83 unique authors

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in… — Terence McKenna
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of… — Corliss Lamont
Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the private… — Hermann Bondi
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got,… — Jacque Fresco
A wise and well-informed humanist has taken the time to look lovingly and wonderingly at the living world around him, and to study the ways… — Marston Bates
The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society. — Paul Weyrich
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians. — Jacques Ellul
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. — Philippe Starck
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But… — David Simon
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. — Hu Shih
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can… — Leon Wieseltier
Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization. — Leyla Zana
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle… — Tran ?uc Luong
Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the… — John Ralston Saul
About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a… — Kurt Vonnegut
I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY. — Bill Hicks
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head. — Gary DeMar
What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for… — Whoopi Goldberg
Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It arose 2,000 years… — James Lovelock
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon… — Stefan Zweig
The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive — Timothy Keller
I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to… — James A. Michener
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better… — Max Lerner

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