Quote by Susan Sontag
Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, r

Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. – Susan Sontag

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Fear
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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Time
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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

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Death
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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Society

The human races prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Society

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. – Lee R. Raymond

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Society

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves. – Charles de Secondat

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Society

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