With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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