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It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
— Gene Roddenberry
I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.
— Michael Dirda
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
— Francis Schaeffer
It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.
— Philip Roth
The service of humanity, is the service of God.
— Abhijit Naskar
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
— Michael J. Findley
Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.
— Abhijit Naskar
People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.
— Anthony Hopkins
God doesn't help anyone, humans do.
— Abhijit Naskar
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
— Paulo Freire
Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow.
— Abhijit Naskar
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
— Vidal Sassoon
And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
— Terry Pratchett
I don't believe in types, I believe in people.
— Tom Branson
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
— Sam Harris
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.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.
— Jacob D. Lochner
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.
— Leonard Ravenhill
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
— Jean Baudrillard
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
— Shirley Chisholm
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
— Joyce Carol Oates
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
— Bell Hooks
My first world is humanity. My second world is humanism. And, I live in the third world being merely a human.
— Santosh Kalwar
To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling.
— Sean Faircloth
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
— R.J. Rushdoony
Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.
— Abhijit Naskar
The determination to win is the better part of winning.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Greatness should have no victims
Greatness should need no victims. — Haroutioun Bochnakian
Greatness should need no victims. — Haroutioun Bochnakian
Your life-blood is humanism. If it flows pure and clear, everything would happen nicely in the world - every defect in the society shall be healed.
— Abhijit Naskar
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)
— Billy Graham
Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both.
— Abhijit Naskar
Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.
— Abhijit Naskar
There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.
— C. JoyBell C.
Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.
— Molly Ivins
Secular humanism debases the human.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
— A.C. Grayling
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
— John Ralston Saul
The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.
— Abhijit Naskar
The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist'] — Herman Bondi
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist'] — Herman Bondi
Be who you are and be that well.
— Francis De Sales
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
— Dana Carvey
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
— Christopher Hitchens
If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.
— J. Budziszewski
Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.
— Cassandra Duffy
The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State.
— James C. Campbell
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
— Franz Grillparzer
We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.
— Raymond Williams
Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
— Abhijit Naskar
If Allah wants to send me a message,
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters. — Michael Muhammad Knight
he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters. — Michael Muhammad Knight
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.
— Sara Levine
What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps
— Nathan Phelps
Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?
— Hock G. Tjoa
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
— Sandra Cisneros
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
— Daisaku Ikeda
We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.
— Auliq Ice
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
— Ramsey Clark
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
— Christopher Hitchens
There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
— Greg M. Epstein
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..
— Stanley Fish
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
— Christopher Dawson
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
— Edward O. Wilson
Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
— Abhijit Naskar
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
— Peter L. Berger
Atheism is humanism mediated by the suppression of religion, communism is humanism mediated by
the suppression of private property. — Albert Camus
the suppression of private property. — Albert Camus
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
— Roger Zelazny
The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.
— Bernard Wolfe
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
— Bertrand Russell
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
— Guenter Lewy
My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.
— C. JoyBell C.
Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.
— Abhijit Naskar
It is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
— Daisaku Ikeda
Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
— Abhijit Naskar
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
— George Eliot
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
— R.C. Sproul