In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.
Quotes about humanists (12 Quotes)
What distinguishes Humanists from atheists is their faith in man's ability to do what God has failed to accomplish--make the world a happier abode.
What distinguishes Humanists from Christians is their repudiation of the Bible as the Word of God or a guide for conduct.
Who will protect us if not the artists and the humanists It's not science itself that tends to question - it's organized toward discovery, not reflection and analysis of the implications of the discoveries.
Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro are both humanists. They should get together. And it would be great for Clinton's legacy.
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.
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Well, to admire the hell out of Jesus Christ or of everyone who speaks well. And, well my grandfather said is-- if-- what Jesus said was marvelous. What does it matter whether he was God or not And it doesn't matter. So this is a human being who spoke extremely well, and we humanists listened.
Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top
This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.