Doris Lessing Quotes About Terror

Quotes about: Terror

• All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.

  Doris Lessing

  Party, Reality, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

• But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

  Doris Lessing

  Power, People, Dying

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

• It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Dying, Conscious

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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