Susan Sontag Quotes About Aids

Quotes about: Aids

• Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

  Susan Sontag

  Justice, Diversity, Important

• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

• AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Population, Awareness

• The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.

  Susan Sontag

  Sex, Past, Ignored

• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Taught Us, Blood, People

• I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

  Susan Sontag

  Giving, Comfort, Aids

  Source: ctheory.net

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