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… - Susan Sontag

Not only is Fascism (and overt military rule) the probable destiny of all Communist societies — especially when their populations are moved to revolt — but Communism is in itself a variant, the most successful variant, of Fascism. Fascism with a human face.

What the overemphasis on the idea of content entails is the perennial, never consummated project of interpretation. And, conversely, it is the habit of approaching works of art in order to interpret them that sustains the fancy that there really is such a thing as the content of a work of art.

"Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more."