Susan Sontag Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

  Susan Sontag

  Suffering, Doe, Compassionate

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.21, Macmillan

• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

  Susan Sontag

  Becoming One, Ironic, World

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

• Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Real, Events

• Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

  Susan Sontag

  Treasure, Patient, Regard

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