Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting…

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime…

— Chris Carter

Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular,…

— Zick Rubin

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

— Aminatta Forna

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars...…

— Richard Dawkins

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that…

— Tony Kushner

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever - he…

— Douglas Portway

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers,…

— Noam Chomsky

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that…

— Leo Buscaglia

As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and…

— Alice Roberts

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

— Liza M. Wiemer

Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived…

— Margaret MacMillan