Quotes by Sontag, Susan

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it ha >>

American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment >>

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The lea >>

Quotations about Political Correctness

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), a >>

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. Wh >>

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousn >>

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of what is already known. Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

Sontag, Susan