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title: "Humanist quotes"
date: "2017-09-27T13:26:40+01:00"
modified: "2021-08-16T12:21:52+01:00"
url: "https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/humanist-quotes/"
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# Humanist quotes

 
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  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-11-22-LW-v1-Humanists-UK-George-Eliot-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-11-22-LW-v1-Humanists-UK-George-Eliot.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-12-05-LW-v1-William-Beveridge-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-12-05-LW-v1-William-Beveridge.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-12-15-LW-v1-Christopher-Hitchens-meme-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-12-15-LW-v1-Christopher-Hitchens-meme.png)   
  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-11-LW-v1-Thomas-Hardy-the-truth-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-11-LW-v1-Thomas-Hardy-the-truth.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-01-09-LW-v1-Simone-De-Beauvoir-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2017-01-09-LW-v1-Simone-De-Beauvoir.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-24-LW-v1-Christopher-HItchens-on-humanism-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-24-LW-v1-Christopher-HItchens-on-humanism.png)   
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  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-31-LW-v1-Gandhi-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-01-31-LW-v1-Gandhi.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-02-12-LW-v1-Extending-our-sympathies-Darwin-Day-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-02-12-LW-v1-Extending-our-sympathies-Darwin-Day.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-02-14-LW-v1-Jon-Ronson-WALES-HUMANISTS-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/02/2018-02-14-LW-v1-Jon-Ronson-WALES-HUMANISTS.png)   
  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-25-LW-v1-Humanists-UK-Rosalind-Franklin-quote-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-25-LW-v1-Humanists-UK-Rosalind-Franklin-quote.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-10-LW-v1-Remember-your-humanity-revised-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-10-LW-v1-Remember-your-humanity-revised.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-26-LW-v1-George-Bernard-Shaw-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-26-LW-v1-George-Bernard-Shaw.png)   
  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-01-LW-v1-Shelley-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-01-LW-v1-Shelley.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-16-LW-v2-Frank-Turner-Humanists-UK-meme-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-16-LW-v2-Frank-Turner-Humanists-UK-meme.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-03-LW-v1-Marie-Curie-humanist-300x275.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-03-LW-v1-Marie-Curie-humanist.png)   
  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-26-LW-v1-Aldous-Huxley-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-26-LW-v1-Aldous-Huxley.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-09-19-LW-v1-Schrodinger-300x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-09-19-LW-v1-Schrodinger.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-01-LW-v1-James-Baldwin-Humanists-UK-style-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-01-LW-v1-James-Baldwin-Humanists-UK-style.png)   
  [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-27-LW-v1-Philip-Pullman-cannot-change-who-you-are-274x300.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-07-27-LW-v1-Philip-Pullman-cannot-change-who-you-are.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-08-LW-v1-George-Orwell-humanist-300x275.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-08-08-LW-v1-George-Orwell-humanist.png)   [![](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-06-30-LW-v1-Jim-Al-Khalili-humanist-300x275.png)](https://understandinghumanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/2017-06-30-LW-v1-Jim-Al-Khalili-humanist.png)   
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