Humanities Quotes

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The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times. — Jim Leach
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government. — Jim Leach
We all have choices. We can build walls or we can build bridges. We can give our talents to creating weapons of annihilation, as so… — David Krieger
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . . — Audre Lorde
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the… — Terry Eagleton
We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the… — Eberhard Arnold
The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact,… — Philip Warren Anderson
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff… — Stephen Furst
Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the… — Tupac Shakur
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being… — I. Bernard Cohen
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from… — Ellen Ullman
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. — Connor Jessup
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes,… — Steve Jobs
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. — Mohsin Hamid
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist… — Camille Paglia
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going… — Camille Paglia

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