"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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
Susan Sontag"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
Susan Sontag"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie."
Susan Sontag"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."
Susan Sontag"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
Susan Sontag"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
Susan Sontag