Susan Sontag Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Susan Sontag
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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
Actors and acting Quotes
“Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.”
Cancer Quotes
“What we need is to use what we have.”
Needs Quotes
“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
Sanity Quotes
“The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.”
Utopia Quotes
“It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.”
Memory Quotes
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”
Reality Quotes
“The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.”
Admiration Quotes
“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
Victims Quotes
“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
Melancholy Quotes
“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.”
Truth Quotes
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