#humanit

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#always #beings #collectively #compensates #decadence

more to be a human being with ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#artists #books #humanity #art

Humanity is the sin of God. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#humanity #sin

The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity #systems #freedom

Money is the honey of humanity. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#money #money

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny. ↗

— Hope Davis

#around #called #characters #difficult #evolves

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. ↗

— Viola Davis

#any #anything #bigger #capacity #communicate