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• If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

  William Shatner

  Stars, Book, Quests

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• In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Believe, People

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• Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Spiritual, Art, Character

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• But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.

  Fisher Stevens

  Science, People, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Majority, Facts, Comedy

  Interview with Wes Vernon, www.renewamerica.com. January 9, 2006.

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• What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.

  Ron Glass

  Christian, Buddhist, Views

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• Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

  Arthur Curley

  Organization, Political, Democracy

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• I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to discover what it is all about ... It is even more important when scientists are called upon to play their part in the world of affairs, as is happening to an increasing extent.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Science, Expression, Play

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• 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 ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

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• Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Sadness, Men

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

  Ruth Simmons

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• 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

  Worldview, Knows, Ifs

  "'It's the fun Apocalypse': Creator Eric Kripke talks 'Supernatural'". Interview with Maureen Ryan, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.46, Routledge

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• I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

  Howard Zinn

  Principles, Obstacles, Anarchist

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.

  Howard Mumford Jones

  Education, Past, Humanity

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• In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.

  James G. Watt

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

  James G. Watt, Doug Wead (1985). “The courage of a conservative”, Simon & Schuster

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• It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

  Niels Bohr

  Prejudice, Development, Common

  Niels Bohr (2010). “Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge”, p.31, Courier Dover Publications

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• My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

  Lily Tomlin

  People, Different, Kind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't matter what the film is about, or even whether it's a narrative or figurative film at all, it's an invitation to step into somebody else's shoes. Even if it's the filmmaker's shoes filming a landscape, you go into somebody else's shoes and you look out of their lens, you look out of their eyes and their imagination. That's what going to the pictures is all about.

  Tilda Swinton

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Freedom, Independent, Reality

  Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage

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• It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I think the film is also a humanistic cry for help for animation. It's a film [Boy and the World] with sensitivities completely opposite to what the market wants to sell.

  Alex Abreu

  Thinking, Boys, Opposites

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

  Norman Foster

  Spiritual, Cutting, Technology

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• If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

  Boris Sidis

  Fall, Epidemics, Progress

  "The Source and Aim of Human Progress". Book by Boris Sidis, 1919.

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• You can refer to god and you are really just talking about nature. If you are going to say the universe is god, then everything is god, everything is religion. But when we explore traditional religion we are talking about humanistic gods people pray to, that they think can intervene in our lives, who run sort of a heaven-and-hell operation for the afterworld.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, Talking

  "The MoJo Interview: Bill Maher". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2008.

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