A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
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.
John Ralston Saul
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
Tran Duc Luong
I am a humanist not a feminist. There's a big difference.
Lydia Lunch
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.
George Grosz
I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.
Michael Tippett
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
Sandra Bernhard
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.
Daniel Barenboim
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
Christopher Dawson
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt
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.
Suzanne Vega
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
Christopher Dawson
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