"Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same."

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Source : "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, Summer 2005.

Ellen Willis

#Lonely Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.”
“All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.”
“I don't think discovery of a new planet has a huge meaning for children now, but what it means is the world they're growing up in is very different from children of previous generations. We had Star Trek, Star Wars and Futurama - and we still do - but for children today, they will grow up in a world where other stars were known.”

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“Hunger and self-control do not go hand in hand.”
“The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree.”
“I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.”
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
“Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.”

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