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Humanism is optimistic regarding human nature and confident in human reason and science as the best means of reaching the
goal of human fulfillment in this world. Humanists affirm that humans are a product of the same evolutionary process that
produced all other living organisms and that all ideas, knowledge, values, and social systems are based upon human
experience. Humanists conclude that creative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from
supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy. - published in Free Mind, American Humanist
Association.
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Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the
body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold
ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is
a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task
must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole
of nature in its beauty.
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Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand,
values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be
creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new
and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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A Humanist Code of Ethics:
Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove
the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods
caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the
people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
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Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do
for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who
suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look
out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may
become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has
never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but
by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself
with food and saw about m...
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and
the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others,
whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race
first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
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... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the
growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
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I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
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