Humanism Quotes

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite poin

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.

You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

God doesn’t help anyone, humans do.

Stop looking at people's religions. Try to look at the goodness within them.

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

Hope is believing in something that eludes you. It's a desperate feeling in a desperate situation.

There is no actual need of humans to be a pious like an angel, it's a big chase to be a human and for me it's enough to be a human.

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

Religion poisons everything

I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.

The pygmies, for example, or the Mindoro of the Philippines, do not want equal rights – they just want to be left alone.

He wasn’t the best coder or the most introspective human being, and you must know that it takes the best coder and the most human human to produce the best droid in this age. (Douglas Parsley

It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

If he makes humanity God and yet cries out against God's inhumanity, it is clear who has really been accused.

Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

For we, when we feel, evaporate: oh, webreathe ourselves out and away: from ember to ember, yielding us fainter fragrance.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.