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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state. -- R.J. Rushdoony
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones. -- Martin Seligman
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us. -- Bertrand Russell
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. -- Tran Duc Luong
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. -- Tran Duc Luong
If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked. -- William Shatner
Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life. -- David Chalmers
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... -- Paulo Freire
The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum. -- John Goodlad
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. -- Alfred L. Kroeber
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. -- Fisher Stevens
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot. -- Ruth Simmons
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. -- Eric Kripke
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. -- Mike White
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. -- Norman Foster
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. -- Myrtle Aydelotte
My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers. -- Patti Smith
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. -- Hillary Clinton
It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept. -- Pat Boone
My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people. -- Marjane Satrapi
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness. -- Marshall McLuhan
Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them. -- Erich Fromm
A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. -- Frank Gehry
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation. -- Fisher Stevens
Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process. -- Lee Johnson
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. -- Christian Lous Lange
I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. -- Mitch Kapor
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. -- Lily Tomlin
If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible. -- Boris Sidis
I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.' -- Carl Weathers
Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings? -- Charles Francis Potter
It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I think the film is also a humanistic cry for help for animation. It's a film [Boy and the World] with sensitivities completely opposite to what the market wants to sell. -- Alex Abreu
I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest. -- Nouriel Roubini
I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray gay characters in a humanistic light. As a young man, I knew enough gay people as people not to fear them. On the other side of the coin, I like to irritate conservatives and homophobes. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist. -- Greg Graffin
You can refer to god and you are really just talking about nature. If you are going to say the universe is god, then everything is god, everything is religion. But when we explore traditional religion we are talking about humanistic gods people pray to, that they think can intervene in their lives, who run sort of a heaven-and-hell operation for the afterworld. -- Bill Maher
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life. -- Erich Fromm
I was on a panel with light skinned Blacks and a famous gay science fiction writer, who were complaining about how Blacks are against gays and light skinned Blacks and how intolerant Blacks are of different groups. My position was that Blacks were among the most humanistic, tolerant groups in the country and that across the street from my house in Oakland was one inhabited by White gays. -- Ishmael Reed
I see Christianity in very humanistic terms. -- John Shelby Spong
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. -- John Dewey
You can't just add a smattering of verses to a humanistic worldview." -- Joseph Stephen
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities -- Alfred L. Kroeber
I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. -- Howard Zinn
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot. -- Ruth Simmons
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic." -- Eric Kripke
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more. -- Paula Scher
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world. -- Conor Oberst
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies. -- Neil Postman
From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one. -- George Sarton
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. -- Norman Foster
For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute. -- Dan Barker
One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult. -- Jaron Lanier
Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names. -- Calvin Seerveld
I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet. -- Murray Bookchin
In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious. -- James G. Watt

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