Humanist Quotes

I`m very much a humanist. I`m very much pro-choice. I`m very much politically correct.

I have nothing to do with sci-fi. I`ve done a couple of sci-fi movies. I never approach them as that genre. You know, they`re all dramas. Sci-fi, the idiom of sci-fi has created a context into which you can pour all sorts of great human dilemmas. So that`s what I`m directing. I`m directing a modern-day humanist drama with comic elements.

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.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don`t see why someone who`s a feminist should be thought of differently.

Christianity stands for freedom, we don`t want to impose our religion on everyone else. We just don`t want secular humanist values or homosexual values to be forced upon us under the guise of anti-harassment laws, speech codes, hate crime laws, or sensitivity training.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.

But the US is a democracy, and when a government is voted out, these humanist notions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness continue.

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.