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Atheism Central for Secondary Schools - Help and general support for atheist students attending religious studies courses in secondary schools in the United Kingdom.
Humanists - An independent site for Humanists that provides Humanist information, news, comments, answered questions and jokes; plus details of events and contacts.
National Secular Society - Fights religious privilege and the survival of superstition. It vigorously campaigns for secularism, freethought, civil liberties and rational ethics.
British Humanist Association - Watchdog and lobby organisation with interest in the full range of issues with ethical implications. It aims to support and represent people who seek to live good and responsible lives without religious beliefs. News, publications, contact and briefings on issues.
Unique Ceremonies - Ceremonies designed and scripted by Alex Lee, accredited Humanist celebrant. Information on baby-namings, weddings and funerals.
Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association - Promotes a rational humanist approach to homosexuality and to lesbian, gay and bisexual rights as human rights.
Humanist Society of Scotland - For those who adopt a non-religious, but ethical stance to life. Events, views, forum and advice on ceremonies such as weddings and funerals.
Ethical Society - Based at Conway Hall, London, the South Place Ethical Society is the oldest freethought community in the world. Founded in 1793 it has been a focus for serious discussion of basic ethical principles.
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Humanism and Secularism "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Humanism and Secularism A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin. -- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Humanism and Secularism "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Humanism and Secularism The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Humanism and Secularism "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Humanism and Secularism "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Humanism and Secularism What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Humanism and Secularism "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers Humanism and Secularism What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Humanism and Secularism If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Humanism and Secularism If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Humanism and Secularism "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. -- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the House Bank scandal "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Humanism and Secularism And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Humanism and Secularism Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein Humanism and Secularism A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay Humanism and Secularism In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Humanism and Secularism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Humanism and Secularism Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Humanism and Secularism The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. -- Robert Frost Humanism and Secularism Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Humanism and Secularism "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Humanism and Secularism
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