Humans Quotes by Susan Sontag

Communism is fascism with a human face.

— Susan Sontag

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

— Susan Sontag

The white race is the cancer of human history.

— Susan Sontag

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human…

— Susan Sontag

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”

— Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

— Susan Sontag

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to…

— Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what…

— Susan Sontag

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and…

— Susan Sontag

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what…

— Susan Sontag

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an…

— Susan Sontag

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual…

— Susan Sontag

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what…

— Susan Sontag

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification.…

— Susan Sontag

One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,…

— Susan Sontag

If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the…

— Susan Sontag

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to…

— Susan Sontag

Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch…

— Susan Sontag

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's…

— Susan Sontag

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans…

— Susan Sontag

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with…

— Susan Sontag

The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions…

— Susan Sontag