Atheist Humanist Quotes

#1. I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, "Can we watch the Muffets?" So anything that reminds me of how adorable my sister was, I'm a big fan of.

Laura Benanti

#2. I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

Pierre Berton

#3. In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

Patti LaBelle

#4. My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish.

Sara Sheridan

#5. More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

Julie Klam

#6. Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics); my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.

John Rafferty

#7. I wanted to skewer her with a stare, flay her with a frown, impale her with a - I say, what are you doing?
Charles would have answered her, but he was laughing so hard he was doubled over.

Julia Quinn

#8. Abusing the prosperous in order to curry the favor of the envious, is an old game that still works better than it should.

Edgar Watson Howe

#9. The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.
[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']

Herman Bondi

#10. Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

David Brooks

#11. It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Taslima Nasrin

#12. I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

Jodi Picoult

#13. [Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.

Henry James

#14. What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do. - Nathan Phelps

Nathan Phelps