Humanism Quotes - Page 4

• To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, People, Silence

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.91, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

  Randall Terry

  Children, Long, Abandonment

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man 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 man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  Norman Dorsen

  Believe, Government, Atheism

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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

  Believe, Fate, Men

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• As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Son, Sheep, Shepherds

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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• 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

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

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• I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

  Michael Dirda

  Kindness, Thinking, Essence

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

  Dana Carvey

  Interesting, Stuff, Existential

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• We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Fashion, Son, Men

  Mass "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice", www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Buddhism, Law

  "Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 19, 1961.

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• What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Men, Feelings

  "Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

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• Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

  Jacques Maritain

  Religious, Source, Western

  Jacques Maritain (1968). “Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom”, New York : Scribner

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• The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

  Stefan Zweig

  Errors, People, Trying

  "Erasmus of Rotterdam". Book by Stefan Zweig, p. 116, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld, 1934.

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• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  Irving Babbitt

  Expansion, Degrees, Renaissance

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• The modern man, finding that Humanism and Sex both fail to satisfy, seeks his happiness in Science ... But Science fails too, for it is something more than a knowledge of matter the soul craves.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sex, Science, Men

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• The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

  Merrill Markoe

  People, Phrases, Incredibles

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

  C. Wright Mills

  Reality, Sociology, Plus

  "Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills". Book edited by Irving Louis Horowitz, 1963.

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• Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.

  Gary North

  Christian, Unity, Enemy

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• Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Men, Law, Saving

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• As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Christian, Religious, School

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• Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

  Harvey Cox

  Meaningful, Christian, Religious

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• The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Men, Age

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• Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. Its a balance.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Keys, Balance, Maintaining

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• I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Believe, Feminist

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