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“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

Thinking Years Humans Culture Universe Courses Human Beings Thousand Importance Deny Billions Fifteen Thousand Years Theologian Theological Logical Thinking

Author:John Polkinghorne

“What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?”

People World Littles Might Young Values Culture Names Safe Deny Motherhood Ignorant Value Systems Little Knowledge

Author:Nafis Sadik

“There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.”

Values Culture Deny Arrogance Self Control Imperialism Hierarchy

Book:And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.”

Needs Should Culture Courses Healthy Deny Convinced Artistic Norm Continuity Healthy Society

Author:Earle Brown

“The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution of the Arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources, or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the most potent means for developing their minds.”

World Mind Mean Children Art Culture Teacher Resources Aspect Fundamentals Deny Access Developing Contribution Neglect Inadequate Stunning

Author:Elliot W. Eisner

“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.”

Knows Trying Art Philosophy Artist Culture Known Philosophical Critics Deny Painter Denied Translate Outlook Dealer Epistemology Cezanne Art Critic

Author:Semir Zeki

“How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.”

Thinking World Trying Lying Culture Easy Answers Feminism Movement Intelligent Intention Deny Passive Fullness Degrade

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.”

Men Culture Sacrifice Caught Deny Rely Decline Coercion

Book:Prisms

Source: Prisms

“He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.”