Camps Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camps Character Indignation Moral Moral indignation Morality Playfulness Sponsors
To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
“It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Lady Windemere's Fan 23. In naïve, or pure,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
The reading I did do that stuck with me was usually somewhat breathless and brittle - I suppose camp. But my definition of camp… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action… There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
Morality is the spark that ignites the fuel, Will is the explosion of TNT and Pride is the soldiers next to you — Mattias Konradsson Copy Share Image
People tent to take those who love them for granted. Not realizing people evenually get tired and leave, no matter the love. — Drusila T Copy Share Image
Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with… — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold 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
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The surprise of an army is now next to an impossibility. ... Prearranged surprises are rare and difficult because in order to plan one… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp… — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's often frustrating when you're a war reporter and you're covering these places that far away. You're frustrated by making stories that people can't… — Rick Rowley Copy Share Image
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image