# The World Is My Home

- Author: [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home

## Quotes

> I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-terrified.md)

Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)

> I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson — the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-a-humanist.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)