In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes — and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.


"The Distracted Public" (1990), p. 156 - It All Adds Up (1994)

Saul Bellow Quotes

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or...

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or...

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or...

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or...