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.

To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the st…

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

I believe in the separation of sex and state. I also believe that social benefits like health insurance should not be privileges bestowed by marital status but…

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cram…

Lately I have been living in a world which I no more understand & which has become very lonely; Ileana married, Sitta gone, Nicky banished, but I struggle on. …

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnes…