Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes

I'm a humanist.

This country will never sacrifice humanity in order to carry out any policy.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Doing Good Is My Religion

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

When it comes to me I follow the religion of humanity.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.