History Quote by Jim Leach

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

— Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest…

— Mario Draghi

First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars…

— David Miliband

Angela Merkel has been focused on the right things. She has focused on the interests of her citizens - and not just in a…

— Justin Trudeau

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…

— Camille Paglia

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

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can…

— Ted Nordhaus

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,…

— Pico Iyer

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade