Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life.… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
In one of my favorite anecdotes about Foucault, someone asks him why he writes books. He responds by saying something like "When I begin… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I worry that we don't currently have a democracy in the United States. Instead we have what [political philosopher] Sheldon Wolin has recently labeled… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us. — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of… — Thomas L. Dumm Copy Share
