Top 24 Secular Humanist Quotes

#1. The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

Nathan Myhrvold

#2. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

John Rafferty

#4. I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

James Caan

#5. Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

Socrates

#6. I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.

Suzi Quatro

#7. We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

Gary DeMar

#8. Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Herman Bondi

#10. It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Tim LaHaye

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

Taslima Nasrin

#14. The only difference between a Religious Humanist and a Secular Humanist is what they do on Sunday.

Fred Edwords

#15. The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Charles M. Schulz

#16. As I bicycle home, it starts to rain, cold, almost-snow kind of rain, and I'm glad. I can blame my wet cheeks on the rain.

Jenny Han

#17. The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

Frank Schaeffer

#18. It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.

Elizabeth Kostova

#19. I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.

Daymond John

#20. The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

Lee Adams

#21. The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.

Paul Weyrich

#22. Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and amoral; to codify it into law is to codify a lie.

Pat Buchanan

#23. Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe, - but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#24. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Arthur Adamov

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