
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Source: You Can Change the World (2003), p. 68.
Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
“Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.”
"Three Elegies for Susan Sontag", New Politics (Summer 2005), Vol. X, No. 3 http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue39/Willis39.htm
Context: 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.