Granted Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Granted Pain People Should Subjects Taken Taken for granted
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all assume everyone… — Dalya Moon Copy Share Image
We can't take for granted how people who are seeing the suffering are feeling. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
We want to know other people are in pain, because that's what we relate to. — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Knowing what it feels like to be in pain is exactly why we try to be kind to others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We pass people in the street and ignore them when they're clearly suffering. It makes you wish we could all feel when someone needs… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than… — Elie Wiesel 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 the time. During these years, kids would live communally – doing some work, anyway being physically active, in the countryside(...) This simple change in the age specificity of schooling would a) reduce adolescent discontent, anomie, boredom,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share
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
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
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