Quotes Tagged With :sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

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

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

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory....

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions....

We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand.....

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

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan....

What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered....

One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel....