#hum

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#constantly #epochs #fate #geography #godless

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anything #books #closer #human #human life

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#creates #destructive #element #fear #human

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#against #been #brushing #create #hasn

I got hired by a newspaper to write a column on current events, so I wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s charting of the Gulf Stream. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #newspapers #funny

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#harden #heart #human #human heart #want

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike. ↗

— Trey Parker

#argue #general #humor #love #matt

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. ↗