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Doe Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing…
- Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous…
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
- What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person…
- Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved…
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -…
- A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to…
- Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,…
- Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
- The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to…
- Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the…
- To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi