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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. -- John Ralston Saul
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. -- Simone Weil
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. -- E. M. Forster
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea. -- R. C. Sproul
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. -- Christopher Dawson
Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to. -- Molly Ivins
Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all. -- Linus Pauling
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. -- Edward Said
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. -- Corliss Lamont
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
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. -- Corliss Lamont
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. -- Christopher Dawson
IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology -- C. Wright Mills
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. -- Michael J. Findley
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it. -- Francis Schaeffer
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. -- A.C. Grayling
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture. -- Harvey Cox
Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious. -- Travis Culliton
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. -- Edward Said
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
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. -- Hugo Black
Humanism believes that the individual attains the good life by harmoniously combining personal satisfactions and continuous self-development with significant work and other activities that contribute to the welfare of the community. -- Corliss Lamont
The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves. -- Fulton J. Sheen
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that. -- Margaret E. Knight
Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith. -- John Galsworthy
Humanism is my Religion, Good is my adoption , Bad is my Elimination, Acceptance is my Decision, Love is My Gift , Relation is my Affection ,Truth is My Strength, Help Is My Credit , Knowledge is My Treasure -- jagan kumar
As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd. -- Francis Schaeffer
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. -- William James
Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter. -- William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meanings of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods. -- Corliss Lamont
Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians. -- Gary North
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance. -- Bikram Choudhury
America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism. -- Leonard Ravenhill
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. -- Vidal Sassoon
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. -- Dana Carvey
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. -- Christopher Dawson
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie. -- Paulo Freire
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. -- Sandra Cisneros
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5) -- Billy Graham
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. -- Peter L. Berger
It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism. -- Billy Graham
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism. -- Bobby Seale
Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy. -- Paul Kurtz
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. -- Myles Munroe
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism. -- Judy Chicago
It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous? -- Ruth Pitter
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. -- Parker Palmer
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion. -- Dennis Prager
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. -- Daniel Barenboim
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. -- Irving Babbitt
Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers. -- Joss Whedon
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests. -- Isaac Asimov
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. -- E. O. Wilson
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events. -- Steven Pinker
One must say bluntly that it is an unattractive sight when, with a view to smearing the Soviet people, leaders of such a country as the United States resort to what almost amounts to obscenities alternating with hypocritical preaching about morals and humanism. -- Yuri Andropov
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. -- Rob Sheffield
In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen. -- Anne Rice
Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war. -- Nelson Mandela
Secular humanism debases the human. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind? -- Joyce Carol Oates
The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality. -- Franz Grillparzer
Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance. -- Bikram Choudhury
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. -- Christopher Hitchens
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. -- Erik Adigard
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. -- H. G. Wells
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself. -- Jacques Maritain
Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me. -- Dalai Lama
It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism. -- J. Vernon McGee
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. -- Shirley Chisholm
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. -- Guenter Lewy
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. -- Jean Baudrillard
To embrace humanism is to embrace the concept that caring for our fellow human beings is our highest calling. -- Sean Faircloth
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together. -- Michael Dertouzos
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult. -- Thomas Pynchon
I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism. -- Geert Wilders
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism. -- Ramsey Clark
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria. -- Anita Roddick
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. -- Paul Kurtz
I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace. -- Michael Dirda
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie." -- Paulo Freire
The forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race. -- Andre Vltchek
We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. -- Pat Buchanan
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. -- Terry Eagleton
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism -- Peter L. Berger
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,.. -- Stanley Fish
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison. -- Theodor Adorno
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream? -- Randall Terry
American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America. -- Pat Buchanan
Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality. -- R.J. Rushdoony
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed. -- Steve McCurry
This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies. -- Terence McKenna
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself. -- Jerry Falwell
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period. -- Michel Aflaq
The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge. -- Merrill Markoe
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. -- Andre Vltchek
I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism. -- Erich Fromm
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them. -- Stefan Zweig
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil. -- Tim LaHaye

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