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

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral ind…

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in p…

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…

The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass ove…

Le silence est la plus grande persecution; jamais les saints ne se sont tus. (919)

I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improp…