Quotes by Susan Sontag with nature

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist

Lived from: 1933 - 2004

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 january 1933 Died: 28 december 2004

  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

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  • Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
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  • Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
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  • It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
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  • Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
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