Humanism Quotes
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.
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.
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.
Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.
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.
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)
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.
To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.
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.
It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.
Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.
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.
The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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.
If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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.
We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm, a turnaround, revival and progress can be possible.
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
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.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.
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.
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.
Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.