Quote

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Susan Sontag

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
Author
Essayist
Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
New York City
New York
Susan Rosenblatt
Committed
Mass
Legally
Violence
Instances
Within
Principal
Government
Recognized
Today
Governments
World
Borders
Instance

More quotes by Susan Sontag

Image
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
Susan Sontag
Image
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
Susan Sontag
Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.
Susan Sontag
Image
Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.
Susan Sontag
Image
Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.
Susan Sontag
Image
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag
Image
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
Susan Sontag
Image
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
Susan Sontag
Image
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Susan Sontag
Image
One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.
Susan Sontag
Image
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.
Susan Sontag
Image
The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.
Susan Sontag
Image
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
Susan Sontag
Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.
Susan Sontag
Image
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.
Susan Sontag
Image
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Susan Sontag
Image
I'm more cautious about what I write.
Susan Sontag
Image
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
Image
You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.
Susan Sontag
Image
I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
Susan Sontag