Humanism Quotes

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

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

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

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

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.

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?

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

Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.