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  Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Decency, Humanism

• That’s the rub about ‘Community’ – for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don’t show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

  Rob Sheffield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Cleverness

• 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

  Topics in Belief, Kindness, Life, Nature

  Tags in Humanism, Heaven, Earth, Faith, Hope

• 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.

  Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;

  sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.

  Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.

  Never think less of yourself than you are.

  Never think that you are more than another.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Reverence, Humanism, Credo, Creed

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Characteristic

• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imperative, Humanism

• My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feminism, Humanism

• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism

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

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Humanism, Women, Men

• 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

  Topics in Democracy, Humanity

  Tags in Humanism, Law

• One can’t understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive – they’re reacting to what they call secular humanism.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Secular, Reacting, Similar

• The human condition is that we are individuals in relationship, and there are tensions between individuality and relatedness. A humanist spirituality is not one of complete dependence, nor of complete independence — neither condition can be defended as primary. Rather, a humanist spirituality is one of interdependence.

  Jone Johnson Lewis

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Interdependence, Humanism, Relationships

• Ethical Humanism is primarily an attitude about human beings, their worth, and the significance of their lives. It is concerned with the nature and quality of living; the character and creativity of our relationships. Because of this concern, humanism spontaneously flowers into a spiritual movement in its own right.

  Edward Ericson

  Topics in Spirituality

  Tags in Humanism, Relationships

• 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. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime.

  Felix Adler

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Humanism, Purpose

• Poverty and War have no excuse.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Social Chang, War, Poverty

• The Humanist rarely loses the feeling of at-homeness in the universe. The Humanist is conscious of being an earth-child. There is a mystic glow in this sense of belonging. Memories of one’s long ancestry still linger in muscle and nerve, in brain and germ cell. On moonlit nights, in the renewal of life in the springtime, before the glory of a sunset, in moments of swift insight, people feel the community of their own physical being with the body of mother earth. Rooted in millions of years of planetary history, the earthling has a secure feeling of being at home, and a consciousness of pride and dignity as a bearer of the heritage of the ages.

  Eustace Haydon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Earth

• Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ethics, Humanism, Duty

• 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. Humanists conclude that creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

  Unknown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humanism, Responsibility

• I have known many good people who did not believe in God. But I have never known a human being who was good who did not believe in people. [language slightly modified]

  John Lovejoy Elliott

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Agnosticism Atheism, Humanism, Good