The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.
Susan SontagThe decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.
Susan SontagOne set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.
Susan SontagTheories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
Susan SontagOur very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.
Susan Sontag