#humanit

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it. ↗

— Al Pacino

#because #believe #characters #express #film

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

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

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

— Francis Parkman

#descent #found #humanity #scale #visible

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#against #anything #conscience #does #engraved

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#conscious #deliberate #humanity #now #only

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. ↗

— Goran Persson

#another #fellow #finest #humanity #members

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. ↗

— Goran Persson

#church #humanity #lies #made #open

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

#grace #humanity #love #love is

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor