“ Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice. ”
- Paul West- Copy
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“ Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
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“ When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ A humanistic religion, if it excludes our relation to nature, is pale and thin, as it is presumptuous, when it takes humanity as an object of worship. ”
- John Dewey- Copy
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“ Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands, a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
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“ I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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“ A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
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“ I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ Humanism is optimistic regarding human nature and confident in human reason and science as the best means of reaching the goal of human fulfillment in this world. Humanists affirm that humans are a product of the same evolutionary process that produced all other living organisms and that all ideas, knowledge, values, and social systems are based upon human experience… ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ We believe that an ethical faith need not, and indeed cannot, be grounded in any one way. It is not that we are indifferent to questions about the ultimate nature and meaning of things. Far from it. It is that we believe the universe far too vast to be comprehended in its inner-most core or in its totality by any one person or by all people together… ”
- Jerome Nathanson- Copy
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“ The Brain — is wider than the Sky — For — put them side by side — The one the other will contain With ease — and You — beside — The Brain is deeper than the sea — For — hold them — Blue to Blue — The one the other will absorb — As Sponges — Buckets — do — The Brain is just the weight of God — For — Heft them — Pound for Pound — And they will differ — if they do — As Syllable from Sound —. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ If abuses are destroyed, we must destroy them. If slaves are freed, we must free them. If new truths are discovered, we must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of people… ”
- Robert G. Ingersoll- Copy
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“ This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends… ”
- Gloria Steinem- Copy
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“ A Humanist Code of Ethics: Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother. Being is more important than having. Never promote yourself at another's expense. Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence. Allow each person the digity of his or her labor. Open your home to the wayfarer… ”
- Arthur Dobrin- Copy
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“ The purpose of democracy — supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance — is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures, to illustrate, at all hazards, this doctrine or theory that man, properly train'd in sanest, highest freedom, may and must become a law, and series of laws, unto himself, surrounding and providing for, not only his own personal control, but all his relations to other individuals, and to the State; and that, while other theories, as in the past histories of nations, have proved wise enough, and indispensable perhaps for their conditions, this, as matters now stand in our civilized world, is the only scheme worth working from, as warranting results like those of Nature's laws, reliable, when once establish'd, to carry on themselves. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true… ”
- Sir Julian Huxley- Copy
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“ The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself… ”
- Felix Adler- Copy
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