“The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public.”
On the September 11, 2001 attacks The New Yorker: Talk of the Town (24 September 2001) https://archive.is/20130630002651/www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/010924ta_talk_wtc?010924ta_talk_wtc
Context: The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word "cowardly" is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday's slaughter, they were not cowards.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Susan Sontag 168
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004Related quotes

2008 Winter Soldier Testimony http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier/testimony/aims-global-war-terror-political-legal-and-economic-context-iraq-and-afghan-0.
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: We join together to earth the power of the season and to slip between the worlds, the voices saying to every one of us, "Wake up, you are it, you are a part of the circle of the wise. There is no mystery that has not already been revealed to you. There is no power you do not already have. You share in all the love there is. The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart. She is singing, crying, moaning, wailing, shrieking, crooning to us, to be awake, to commit ourselves to life, to be a lover in the world and of the world, to join our voices in the single song of constant change and creation. For her law is to love all beings, and she is the cup of the drink of life. The circle is ever open, ever unbroken.

America...You Kill Me

'Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo'
written text with brush in her painting: 'Only by touching can greatness be achieved' in image JHM no. 4685 https://charlotte.jck.nl/detail/M004685/part/character/theme/keyword/M004685: in 'Life? or Theater..', p. 567
Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.

The Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2013/0221_escudero1.asp
2013, Mid-Term Campaign Trail