Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

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I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

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.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

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...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there...

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...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

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 aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...