Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Quote by Susan Sontag

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes, History Quotes

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Perversity is the muse of modern literature

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential...