Top 902 Secular Humanism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

If you want to practice Islam in the inconsequential, semi-secular sense, fine.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

Especially in a very secular world, we should always stress what is common in the Christian religion.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

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

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

I have always had a serious political career in mind and my secular ideology matches with that of the Congress.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

Humanism has many meanings, but what attracts me about it is that it encourages men and women to take a broad view of situations and to think about them from on-the-ground perspectives rather than through theoretical and conceptual lenses.

Some have a difficult time with feminism. 'Why not a human liberation movement?' they say. The answer is that the power differences between the sexes, races, and classes are still so extreme that invoking humanism, at this time, dangerously denies that fact.

For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

Our country is secular and Kerala is one state where it plays out at its best.

India is a secular nation and believers of all religions and atheists have a place in this country.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

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

I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands, as Australia, is a culture based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism, and it should not, nor ever will become a society based on Islamic failures.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

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

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

There is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.