"I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man…" — Edward Abbey

More Humanist Quotes

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• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — 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… — Isaac Asimov
• From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is… — Mark Thomas
• Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief… — 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… — Suzanne Vega
• It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is… — Rowan Williams

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