Quotes from book
The World Is My Home

Name: The World Is My Home
Author: James A. Michener

The World Is My Home: A Memoir is an autobiography written by James A. Michener.

“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.”

James A. Michener book The World Is My Home

The World Is My Home (1991)

“I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies.”

James A. Michener book The World Is My Home

The World Is My Home (1991)
Context: 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.