"Where once it was the physician who waged……" — Susan Sontag
"Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society."
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341 Quotes by Susan Sontag
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- It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
- Taste has no system and no proofs.
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- The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that…
- Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...
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- Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.
More Bellum Quotes
This quote is filed under Bellum Quotes, one of 3 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
- Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it. — Desiderius Erasmus
- War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis. — Desiderius Erasmus