# Quote — James A. Michener, The World Is My Home

> 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.

- Author: [James A. Michener](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener.md)
- Book: [The World Is My Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#The_World_Is_My_Home_(1991)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-a-humanist

## More from this book

> 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)