It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To the militant, identity is everything.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.

I want to be in the big show, and to be in the big show, you have to practice. I have this attitude now that I'm going to take all the greatness I can. Nothing's going to stop me.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.