Top 17 Quotes by Ellen Willis

About Ellen Willis

These are some quotes by American author Ellen Willis Writer, who lived between December 14, 1941 and November 9, 2006.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

Ellen Willis

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

Ellen Willis

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

Ellen Willis

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Ellen Willis

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Ellen Willis

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Ellen Willis

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.

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

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

Ellen Willis

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

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

Ellen Willis

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis

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