As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living…

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle…

— Ken Robinson

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom…

— Ken Robinson

“I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.”

— Liza M. Wiemer

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom…

— Nelson Mandela

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character,…

— Samuel George Morton

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

It's silly to have as one's sole object in life just making money, accumulating wealth. I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and…

— Johnny Carson

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right…

— John Ralston Saul

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the…

— Michael Pollan

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many…

— Norbert Wiener

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male…

— G. Stanley Hall

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher