Regarding Susan Sontag Quotes

The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local. — Susan Sontag

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's. — Susan Sontag

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize. — Susan Sontag

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence. — Susan Sontag

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more. — Susan Sontag

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.) — Susan Sontag

Wherever people feel safe ( ... ) they will be indifferent. — Susan Sontag