Quotes of: Humanist Keyword

Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many centuries earlier. Christian Humanists also wanted to get back to these ideas, but they were mainly concerned with learning abou...

The Catholic Reformation

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at ...

Francis A. Schaeffer

Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for 'the faith community,' whatever that is. Yet 'TfT' is almost always pabulum about how God wants us all to love each other and care for the unf...

Simon Hoggart

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

Pierre Berton

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Arthur E. Morgan

Kevin Lomax: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven", is that it? John Milton: Why not? I'm here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I've nurtured every sensation man's been inspired to have. I cared about what he wan...

The Devil's Advocate

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Christopher Dawson

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Hu Shih

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

John Maeda

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

Michael Tippett

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt

It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to...

Purgatorio

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

Paulo Freire

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Tariq Ramadan

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

Bobby Seale

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Walter Lippmann

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

Marjane Satrapi

I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.

Lydia Lunch

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Irving Babbitt

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

Eric Kripke

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Sandra Bernhard