Susan Sontag Quotes

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

Topics

FearPoliticalRealAuthoritarian

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

Joe Biden

FuturePowerPeaceBalanceWar

A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.

John Christopher

KnowExpectMightLabelHeShould

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates

TechnologyRealityYouDownPlace

I like people who would rather something be discovered than shoved in your face.

Amy Sedaris

PeopleFaceSomethingWouldYour

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

Simon Rattle

WorkHard WorkHumilityMusicians

I've seen a lot of Pearl Jam shows, and the only reaction I've ever seen is the audience being completely supportive and loving every moment.

Chris Cornell

MomentLovingReactionAudienceSeen

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

Chelsea Manning

PowerPatriotismAmericanMission

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

Chris Matthews

WorkMotherJobManCollegeMe

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce

PoliticsRedBlueFaceTalkingWere

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

HomeStyleGoing HomeBackDisgust

As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

FashionLuxuryImportantPersonal

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle

HopeManWorldPlaceSpeakingHe

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