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We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
Philippe Starck
We must substitute grace, which is an aesthetic notion, with morality, which is a humanistic ideal.
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Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind.
Corliss Lamont
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What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
C.P. Snow
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Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.
Jacques Ellul
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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.
Saul Alinsky
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At one point, 'feminist' became a pejorative term. How did that happen? If you're a feminist, you're basically saying you're a humanist.
Julianne Moore
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I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
Sandra Bernhard
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Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
Gregory Chaitin
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt
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No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.
David Attenborough
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The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive
Timothy Keller
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Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
Stephen Fry
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I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.
Erich Fromm
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He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.
Tavis Smiley
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To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
Edward Abbey
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I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.
Meredith Brooks
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I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
Gloria Steinem
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I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.
Marjane Satrapi