Susan Sontag Quotes

In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

The most interesting ideas are heresies.

When we’re afraid we shoot. But when we’re nostalgic we take pictures.

The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it alone – its ideologies and inventions – which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.