Best Humanist Quotations
102 Humanist quotes by 83 unique authors
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
— Taslima Nasrin
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation…
— Alan Lightman
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
— Edward Abbey
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Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of…
— David Shi
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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
— David Hume
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with…
— Jodi Picoult
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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that…
— Vladimir Putin
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
— Tariq Ramadan
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without…
— Salman Rushdie
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
— Marjane Satrapi
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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common…
— Patti Smith
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous…
— Gregory Maguire
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We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in…
— Francis Schaeffer
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A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence…
— Bertrand Russell
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Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of…
— Isaac Asimov
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.
— Bobby Seale
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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be…
— Brendan Myers
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With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist…
— Noam Chomsky
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I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
— Michael Tippett
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I truly believe in you. In all of you. I am a humanist, perhaps the last. I believe in all of us. I believe if…
— Vladislas Nikilovic
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