Terry Eagleton Humanity Quotations

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.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

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.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.