“The humanities are despised because they are dangerous.”
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter Seven, If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?, p. 235 (See also: Chris Hedges)
Context: The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces of ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.
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Canadian journalist 1975Related quotes
"Sunday Morning".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”
Section 2
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
Die Gefahr, dass der Computer so wird wie der Mensch, ist nicht so groß wie die Gefahr, dass der Mensch so wird wie der Computer.
Attributed in: Hersfelder Zeitung. Nr. 212, 12. September 2005.
"My Six Conversions, § II : When the World Turned Back" in The Wells and the Shallows (1935)
Context: The Church never said that wrongs could not or should not be righted; or that commonwealths could not or should not be made happier; or that it was not worth while to help them in secular and material things; or that it is not a good thing if manners become milder, or comforts more common, or cruelties more rare. But she did say that we must not count on the certainty even of comforts becoming more common or cruelties more rare; as if this were an inevitable social trend towards a sinless humanity; instead of being as it was a mood of man, and perhaps a better mood, possibly to be followed by a worse one. We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense of trusting a trend in human nature which cannot turn back to bad things.
“Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.”
(2007) HARDtalk with Vaclav Klaus, BBC News, November 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEQmJBINYj4,
“I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger.”
At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
Context: I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.