Susan Sontag Quotes

Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called upon to perform what we cannot.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say, and what you think. /

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

Personally I don't want to be regarded as that one person who's responsible for the title.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.

The real world has consequences when you do and say things about others. We're at a point now where you better be sure who you're going after.

Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.