Humanists Quotes

23 Humanists quotes by 21 unique authors

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and… — David Bowie
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm… — Andrea Dworkin
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. — Walter Lippmann
Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,… — Fred Edwords
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins,… — Pat Robertson
Christian families are under attack in America! The Communists, Masons, Atheists, Humanists, Evolutionists, and other Godless sickos want to destroy the family. Parents beware; the… — Lester Roloff
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led… — Fred Edwords
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into their camp, since… — Ayn Rand
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately,… — Zeena Schreck
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the… — Terry Eagleton
Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only… — Tom Flynn
The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. — John Maeda
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. — E. O. Wilson
In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence… — Albert Camus
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
I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they… — Bruno Latour
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
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love. — Unknown Author
This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified… — Janet Suzman

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