"We’re not the chosen of any god. We only have each other."

"As indicated by our very name, we humanists celebrate humanity, want humanity to survive, and recognize that if human…"

"Discipline, so far as it exists, is not of the humanistic or the religious type, but of the kind that one gets in tra…"

"The idea that defines all humanism is that the world is not a given world, foreign to man, one to which he has to for…"

"The history of religions will inevitably attain to a deeper knowledge of man. It is on the basis of such knowledge th…"

"A humanist has four leading characteristics — curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human r…"

"The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advanta…"

"The aspects of society that humanism most exalts are justice and continuity. That is why humanism is always being pre…"

"Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of an…"

"I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolifi…"