Terry Eagleton Quotes About Humanity
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There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
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There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.
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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 whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
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Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
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