Sentence examples for humanist that from inspiring English sources

There are no values that I can espouse as a humanist that are anti-female, but there are a number of values of feminism that are alien to me – such as the notion that equality is more important than opportunity and choice, and that it can be legislated.

At that moment, the old-fashioned socialist policies (she calls them "humanist") that have bitterly divided the capital since Hidalgo took office were put to one side, as she stepped into the role Rudolph Giuliani took on in New York after 9/11.

Being a Muslim to me means I am first a humanist (that I recognize each human being to be equal to another), that I recognize free will as key fundamental to the practice of any belief and that such equality is relegated independent of belief, race, gender, nationhood, including being Israeli.

"I've long been critical of the position of some humanists that would sanctify secular language and lock us into a calcified rationalism," he said.

Intellectually, Christopher Hitchens stands in the tradition of the British dissenter -- the line of rationalists and humanists that includes Hume, Paine, Hazlitt and, of course, Orwell.

A third voice comes from secular humanists that are motivated by humanitarian concerns.

He urges, contrary to the literary humanists, that the ancients be imitated in "strong and harsh things, not delicate and soft"—i.e., in war.

Aware of concerns raised by humanists that the essence of their art is a search for meaning, Mr. Michel and Mr. Lieberman Aiden emphasized that culturomics simply provided information.

For most humanists, that discovery would merely confirm that "humanity" was not a strictly biological concept, but a linguistic or cultural one, based in part on affinities in appearance, behavior, and experience.

He had not realized when he decided to discuss the writings of some contemporary humanists that his book would be regarded as a sort of Who's Who of contemporary authors.

"Steven Spielberg sees the best in humanity and Stephen King has always seen the worst, but there are a lot of similarities, in that they're both aggressive humanists; that they just love people so much, and throwing them in extraordinary situations and seeing what happens," Vaughan explained.