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The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of

The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Civilization, White
'Partisan Review' Winter 1967, p. 57

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Race, Government
"What's Happening in America" (1966)

The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Race, White
"What's Happening in America" (1966)

The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Medicine, Tuberculosis
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Pregnancy, Demonic
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Moving, Passion
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Susan Sontag
Cancer, Disease, Patient
Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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