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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! — K. Hari Kumar

I am an existential libertarian humanist cocksucker. Now, what else do you want to know? — Remesh R.

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

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

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

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. — Christopher Dawson

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

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. — Saul Alinsky

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. — Gregory Maguire

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

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

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. — Julianne Moore

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

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

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom ... — Robert Green Ingersoll

The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist'] — Herman Bondi

Power is the flower of organization. — A. Philip Randolph

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

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free. — Patti Smith

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. — C.P. Snow

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

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. — Ashley Montagu

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist. — Pierre Berton

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

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

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it! — Mike White

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference. — Lydia Lunch

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

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

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

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. — James Lee Burke

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

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

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past. - Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher — Dale McGowan

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps — Nathan Phelps

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

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

He was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

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

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. — Mark Thomas

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

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

I am a Humanist because I believe in heroes, that history is driven by those individuals with fire enough to change the world. — Ada Palmer

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. — Hu Shih

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' — Charles M. Schulz

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

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings. — Chet Faker

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

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race. — Michael Tippett