Humanist Quotations

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.

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

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.

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

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.

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

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

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

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

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

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

. . . what I am is a humanist before anything -- before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race -- they don't exclude anyone.

I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of

Power is the flower of organization.

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

Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.

When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I'd like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist. But I don't think there's a humanist bone in that man's body.

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

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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

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

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

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

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

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.

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

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . .

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.