Roger Ebert: The Most Essential Quality of Civilization

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization... 

films...to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and 

short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they 

encourage EMPATHY with people not like ourselves 

and encourage us to think about life, they are good.

 

- Roger Ebert
June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013 

Center for Building a Culture of Empathy 
http://cultureofempathy.com/