Humanism Quotes

The 330 million gods and goddesses of the Hindu culture act as placebo for the masses, just like other gods of other cultures do.

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

You don’t need to see yourself through the delusional eyes of the society. It’s the society that needs to see you, through your eyes.

It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.

O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.

Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.

Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.

All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.

Once your character is poured with vigor and your attitude radiates confidence, there is no power in any external force to have any form of authority over you.

Women are no sheep.

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.

Beauty is an illusion.

If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.

Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!

What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.

Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.

Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.

Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is beyond all sectarianism.

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.

The world needs gigantic strong wills in front of which even the mountains will be crumbled.

Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

What I want from you comrade, what the world wants from you, O dearest, are the neurons of steel, within which dwells a mind of the same material of which the thunderbolt is made.

I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.

The Self is the measure of everything.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Every single creature on earth manages to survive one way or another, but not every creature truly lives.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

Truth, by all means is the ultimate reward for all the sufferings of the human mind that often compel even the strongest of characters to get down on his or her knees.

Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.

All religions are mere echoes of this one great religion of Humanism.

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.

Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.

Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.

To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost

Allow your hearts to be driven by principle, not bias. Love, not hate. Unity, not division. The fire of your dreams, not the rain of your sorrows.