Dogville: My Entire Humanity Crisis in One Movie

ten thousand blades striking at once

But if you have no part in the world, no matter how diseased the world is, you are dead. It is not enough to earn your living, do no actual harm to anyone, tell no lies, help a few people with money or kindness when the occasion presents – and without too great a hardship to oneself. It is not enough. It is okay. It is not dirty. But it is dead.

– Martha Gellhorn