Susan Sontag Quotes about Community

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The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Susan Sontag

Inspirational, Change, Community

Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.243, Macmillan

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Susan Sontag

Struggle, Community, Resistance

Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.244, Macmillan

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

Susan Sontag

Loyalty, Careers, Community

Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.39, Macmillan

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

Susan Sontag

Hypocrisy, Community, Roles

Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.18, Univ of California Press

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

Susan Sontag

Thinking, Community, Granted

Source: ctheory.net