Humanist famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one
-- Christopher Dawson -
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
-- Christopher Dawson -
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 -
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
-- Gloria Steinem -
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
-- Irving Babbitt -
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.
-- Jacques Ellul -
At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
-- Julianne Moore -
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
-- Philippe Starck -
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
-- Sandra Bernhard -
Change comes from power, and power comes from organization.
-- Saul Alinsky -
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
-- Stephen Fry -
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
-- Michael Tippett -
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
-- Gregory Chaitin
