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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#art #final #final analysis #less #modes

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#bad #interesting #less #mysterious #ones

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#degrades #feared #most #such #suffering

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#fixed #flash #forever #illuminated #life

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#lying #most #self-defence #simple

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#idea #interested #someone #writer

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#become #been #camera #photographs #rather

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness