Body Quote by Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…

— Matthew Arnold

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

— John Ralston Saul

I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how…

— David Henry Hwang

“Of all the modern social sciences, anthropology is the one historically most closely tied to colonialism, since it was often the case that anthropologists…

— Edward Said

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

— Dana Snyder

I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and…

— Mark Russell

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

— J. Irwin Miller

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a…

— Robert Graves

I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human”

— Charles Dickens