Secular Humanism Quotes

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'

I'm an atheist. I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Qur'an and I refute them.

We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact.

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

As everybody likes to be honored, so people imagine that God also wants to be honored. They forget that the fulfillment of duty towards men is the only honor adequate to him.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

I'm a born - again atheist.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

Atheism thrives on bad religion.

Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.