War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather. — 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
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — 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
Everyone who lives in an industrialized society is obliged gradually to give up the past, but in certain countries, such as the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — 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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