The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag Truth
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 Equality
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag Women
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. Susan Sontag Future
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag Truth
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag Beauty
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag Men
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag Death
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Susan Sontag Famous
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. Susan Sontag Society
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 Space
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag Failure