Humanist Quotes

Humanist Quote of the day

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

I am a misanthropic humanist... Do I like people? They're great, IN THEORY.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Power is the flower of organization.

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

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 and creativeness.

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 many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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 citizen.

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 now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

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.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

I am a humanist not a feminist. Theres a big difference.

The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.

The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

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 crimes in nature.

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 domain where it can do [less] harm.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

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 the human race - they don't exclude anyone.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

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 all systems.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

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 or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!