Quotes by Sontag, Susan

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of con >>

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in hum >>

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. I >>

Quotations about America

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. >>

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the s >>

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anythin >>

American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism and acquisitiveness. Into hectic philanthropy. Into benighted moral crusades, the most spectacular of which was Prohibition. Into an awesome talent for uglifying countryside and cities. Into the loquacity and torment of a minority of gadflies: artists, prophets, muckrakers, cranks, and nuts. And into self-punishing neuroses. But the naked violence keeps breaking through, throwing everything into question.

Sontag, Susan