The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified… — 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
The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever… — 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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