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Quotes from Regarding the Pain of Others — Susan Sontag

1933–2004 United States

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But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. (They look like everybody else).

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

Too much remembering embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

The question is, Whom do we wish to blame? More precisely, Whom do we believe we have the right to blame?

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

What is called in news parlance “the world”…is (unlike the world) a very small place, both geographically and thematically, and what is thought worth knowing about it is expected to be transmitted tersely and emphatically.

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

War is the largest crime.

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.

Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Sontag (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.