The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
Susan Sontag

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Thomas Sowell

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Thomas Sowell

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee Williams

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.
Marshall McLuhan

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
Ralph Nader

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
Emma Goldman

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Arnold Palmer

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel de Montaigne

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Michel de Montaigne