Best 80 quotes in «humanist quotes» category

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

I'm a humanist and an optimist.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

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

All humans are images of your own self - their pain is your pain - their misery is your misery - their sorrows are your sorrows - so rise and be the hope, help and joy in their lives!

Be strong, but don't let that strength blind you to such an extent that you become ignorant of other people's weaknesses.

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!

As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only way to peace and justice on earth. To always do the right thing, be the right person, and stand with whoever is right always and forever.

Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious, nor human – you’d be a biological bag of trash.

Come my friend. Come and walk with me in the path ahead that awaits you with open arms – the path of humanism – the path where every pedestrian is simply a human, not a Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Atheist, Mexican, American, Canadian, British, Australian, Russian, Asian, African, European or anything else.

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.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

For the artists the humanists were the guarantors of their intellectual status, and the humanists themselves recognized the value of art as a mean of propaganda for the ideas on which their own intellectual supremacy is based.

Everyone is mad for something, I am mad for everyone.

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

How many more Christs, Buddhas, Tolstoys, Kings, Naskars have to rise, for humanity to have the revelation that, humanism is the greatest form of religiousness that any conscientious being can ever have!

Humanism is no more a philosophy than love is.

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.

Humans are the only helpline that humanity has got.

Human you are, and your purpose is to live for others as much as you live for yourself.

Human you are, and your religion, Humanism.

Humans will be the hope to the humans – humans will be the help to the humans. That is the world I dream of and that is the world I work to build.

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.

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.

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

I am a person. I am not always happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I see brokenness in the world and I feel like I'm dying inside because I want to fix it! I am a person. I am not continuously grateful for everything and everyone 100% of the time. Because sometimes, I don't feel grateful! Sometimes I feel betrayed, other times I feel deceived. Because I am a person. And I am tired of the schools of thought and the judgmental eyes that offer up their plates of useless opinion when I am not 100% floating up there in false pretenses of perfection. I do not want to be false. I want to be a person. And I want to feel and I want to think, and no, not everything in life is something to be grateful for; and no, not everything in the world is something to be happy about. I am a person. My face can do a lot of things aside from smiling. My face can look peaceful, it can look thoughtful, it can look Divine. I can frown and sometimes my eyebrows are scrunched up in the middle; that's because I'm thinking! I am a person. A person that is so much more than what popular opinion expects is the definition of perfection. But I AM perfect. I am perfect the very way that I am. And I would never want to be only what popular thought would expect of me. I am so much more than that.

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

I can’t spend my life with only one woman - I need all the women in the world - I need all the men in the world - I need everyone in the world, for you all are my family.

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!

İnsan olsun veya hayvan olsun ya da bitki olsun, eğer yaşayan her canlıyı seven bir ruhla kutsanmışsan, o zaman gerçekten kutsanmışsındır!

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

It is "humanism" that should run in the veins of the thinking humanity, not a certain gender-oriented "ism". This entire book is a treatise on gender equality, and as such, it may be hailed as a work of feminism, but it is not - it is a work of humanism.

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

Make humanity human again.

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