Humanist Quotes

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.

[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.

It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

I'm a humanist and an optimist.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

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 in perceiving reality.

I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

Give me your soul and I will give you a unified humanity replete with courage, conscience and compassion.

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.

The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

I work to make human beings out of human bodies. I work to make conscience out of mindlessness. I work to make Gods out of obedient worshippers.

I am the thread of unification that goes through humans of all religions, cultures and ideologies while reinforcing their innate sense of one humanity.

Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Peace first, sophistication later. Harmony first, luxury later.

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

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You may be James the American, or Mary the British, or anything else, but before all that, you are a human.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

Only fools neglect the living God – the Human Self, while running after imaginary shadows.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.