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Ellen Willis Quotes

The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn’t Picture Quote #1

You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God Picture Quote #1

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs Picture Quote #1

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues Picture Quote #1

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries Picture Quote #1

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves Picture Quote #1

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I was a ‘Big Brother’ fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about Picture Quote #1

Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power Picture Quote #1

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect Picture Quote #1

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it Picture Quote #1

Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with usefulness and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems Picture Quote #1

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order Picture Quote #1

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What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic Picture Quote #1

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect Picture Quote #1

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence Picture Quote #1

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism Picture Quote #1

Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power Picture Quote #1

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they’ve never had it? Picture Quote #1

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For democrats, it’s as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral Picture Quote #1

If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist Picture Quote #1

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The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn’t (Ellen Willis Quotes) You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God. (Ellen Willis Quotes) The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. (Ellen Willis Quotes) What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. (Ellen Willis Quotes) My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. (Ellen Willis Quotes) Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves. (Ellen Willis Quotes) I was a ‘Big Brother’ fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about. (Ellen Willis Quotes) Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power. (Ellen Willis Quotes) My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. (Ellen Willis Quotes) Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. (Ellen Willis Quotes) Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with usefulness and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems (Ellen Willis Quotes) While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order (Ellen Willis Quotes) What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic (Ellen Willis Quotes) My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect (Ellen Willis Quotes) Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence (Ellen Willis Quotes) I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism (Ellen Willis Quotes) Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power (Ellen Willis Quotes) Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they’ve never had it? (Ellen Willis Quotes) For democrats, it’s as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral (Ellen Willis Quotes) If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist (Ellen Willis Quotes)