Humanism Quotes - Page 7

• 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.

  Saint, Knees, Jerk

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• Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Belief, Humankind

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• Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.

  David Fisher

  Spiritual, Pride, Men

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• We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

  Michael Dertouzos

  Mistake, Technology, Years

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• 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 L. Berger

  Christian, Movement, Reacting

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• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Literature, Way

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• Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

  Christopher Dawson

  Order, Grace, Culture

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• Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?

  Charles Francis Potter

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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• In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Religious, Philosophy, Thinking

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• If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

  Clive James

  Memories, Civilization, Age

  Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

  Ramsey Clark

  Law, Practice, Criminals

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• For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.

  Nigel Gibson

  Self, Ideas, Colonialism

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, French Culture, Feels

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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