I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. Ellen Willis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. Ellen Willis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. Ellen Willis Read Quote
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 Read Quote
