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  1. A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

    But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

    Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
    Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/knebel-fletcher/7689…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

  2. A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

    But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

    Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
    Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/knebel-fletcher/7689…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

  3. A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

    But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

    Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
    Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/knebel-fletcher/7689…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

  4. A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

    But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

    Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
    Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/knebel-fletcher/7689…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

  5. A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

    But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

    Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
    Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/knebel-fletcher/7689…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

  6. A quotation from Joubert

    It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
     
    [Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

    Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
    Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

  7. @pvonhellermannn
    The article pointed below may help.

    Vashti published: "Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.”"

    jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of

    #Aziza #JewishCurrents #socialMedia #shaheed #impotence #legibility #witness #witnessing #PalestiniansLivesMatter #mourning #grievability #news #israelGaza #GazaWar #warOnGaza #bias #information #coverage #violence #stateViolence #war #Gaza #israelPalestine #IDF