Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

I'm not a religious person at all.

Atheists are pious people.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

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

My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.

I'm not a religious guy at all.

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

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.