“In a way, part of the widespread success of happiness actually lies in that it delivers a legitimate, universalizing and apolitical discourse for individualism – a discourse that conceives one’s life as separate from community and which sees the inner life as the cause and root of all behaviors.”

“In a way, part of the widespread success of happiness actually lies in that it delivers a legitimate, universalizing and apolitical discourse for individualism – a discourse that conceives one’s life as separate from community and which sees the inner life as the cause and root of all behaviors.”

— Eva Illouz