Quotes of: Humanist Keyword

If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.

Ruth J. Simmons

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

Chet Faker

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Taslima Nasrin

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

E. O. Wilson

One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

Jaron Lanier

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

Fisher Stevens

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

John Ralston Saul

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Humanist Without Portfolio: An Anthology of the writings of Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

Pat Boone

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Suzanne Vega

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

Mike White

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

Mike White

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.

Mitch Kapor

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

Tran Duc Luong

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Tran Duc Luong

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Daniel Barenboim

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

Christopher Dawson

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Tom Flynn