Top 165 Humanist Quotes & Sayings

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

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

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

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

From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

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

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Central to being a humanist, which I am, is the core understanding that doubt and criticism are essential attributes in the quest for knowledge.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

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

I am a humanist.

I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

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.

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

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

Wonder Woman is most definitely a feminist, or a humanist, in no uncertain terms. Her prime goal in life is to teach peaceful coexistence and equality.

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

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

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

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

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

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

I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.

I'm a humanist.

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

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

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

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

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

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