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“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

“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.”

World Feelings Individual Social Can Do Moral Movement Lonely Opposites Witness Solidarity Superiority Bearing Witness

Author:Ellen Willis

“When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.”

Self Together Individual Force Struggle Lonely Destruction Working Together Self Destruction

Author:Haile Gerima

“Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.”

World Individual Given Fame Lonely Gifted

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

Men Wells Spirit Individual Nations Destiny Loneliness Terrible Holy Conscience Lonely Affair Every Man Isolation Privacy

Book:Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917