“When God gives you victory, do not forget to give Him the glory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Love is the bedrock of us all.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Love is our nationality, not land. Compassion is our religion, not creed. Conscience is our byword, not constitution.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Rooted in love, tempered by reason - I'm the furnace of peace, piety 'n poetry.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Asylums are museums of the soul.”
“My divinity is not rooted in god or scripture, my divinity is rooted in human welfare.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Atheism is a natural result of intellectual honesty.”
Source: Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker
“Perhaps it is this attitude, this mental turning away, or perhaps the combination of all these responses to calamity brought upon others, that one of Saul Bellow's characters, Artur Sammler, a survivor of the shooting pits in Poland, has in mind when he says: 'I know now that humankind marks certain people for death. Against them there shuts a door”
Source: The Contract of Mutual Indifference: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
“You don't have to agree with a person completely, to love them.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Mr. Babbitt is a stout upholder of tradition and continuity, and he knows, with all his immense and encyclopaedic information, that the Christian religion is an essential part of the history of our race. Humanism and religion are thus, as historical facts, by no means parallel; humanism has been sporadic, but Christianity continuous. It is quite irrelevant to conjecture the possible development of the European races without Christianity — to imagine, that is, a tradition of humanism equivalent to the actual tradition of Christianity. For all we can say is that we should have been very different creatures, whether better or worse. Our problem being to form the future, we can only form it on the materials of the past; we must use our heredity, instead of denying it. The religious habits of the race are still very strong, in all places, at all times, and for all people. There is no humanistic habit: humanism is, I think, merely the state of mind of a few persons in a few places at a few times. To exist at all, it is dependent upon some other attitude, for it is essentially critical — I would even say parasitical. It has been, and can still be, of great value; but it will never provide showers of partridges or abundance of manna for the chosen peoples.”
Source: For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern