Humanist Quotes

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist. (Madonna (entertainer))

In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.

John Ralston Saul

To me, a feminist belongs 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.

Suzanne Vega

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.

Ted Kennedy

Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i. e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.

V. S. Pritchett

Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist.

Roger Ebert

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

Sandra Bernhard

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

Mary McCarthy

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

Vladimir Putin

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

Edward Abbey

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

We have a great history; we have a great humanist face to put forward to the world.

Emmanuel Macron

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

Christopher Dawson

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

Christopher Dawson

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

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Hu Shih

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success is absurd. But then, he also noted that not committing to a just cause is equally absurd. But only one choice offers the possibility for dignity. And dignity matters. Dignity matters.

David Simon

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

Michael Tippett

For any humanist such an incident would cause indescribable grief. But at the same time creating disturbances (ashanti)[, ] indiscipline[, ] and expressing outrage (akrosh) is not the solution.

Narendra Modi

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.

George Grosz

There are two ways to look at this earth. Some people look at this world and say, ‘You know it's amazing! A ‘Big Bang' made this from nothing!' That's the Humanist worldview which says, ‘Man is god.' Other people look at the world and say, ‘You know its incredible design! There must be a smart designer.' That's the Creationist worldview which says, ‘God is God. (Kent Hovind)

Scientific and humanist revolutionary leaders, on the other hand, cannot believe in the myth of the ignorance of the people.

Paulo Freire

A real humanist can be identified more by his trust in the people, which engages him in their struggle.

Paulo Freire

In a sociological sense, I am still part of the Catholic community,... Nevertheless, I am no longer a Roman Catholic. I am a secular humanist with an active interest in religions, particularly Taoism and Hinduism, and keeping a close watch on the variegated Pagan revival in Europe.

Koenraad Elst

A just social order can best be described as a humanist socialism, because its goal would be the establishment of equal possibilities within and between all countries, and at its base would lie universal human values.

Jan Tinbergen

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