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> [Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/still-photographs-are-the-most-powerful-weapons-in-the-world-words/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

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## More by Eddie Adams

> [I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/i-m-not-a-great-believer-in-the-power-of-the-moving-image-a-still/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/i-saw-a-man-walk-into-my-camera-viewfinder-from-the-left-he-took-a/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/still-photographs-are-the-most-powerful-weapons-in-the-world-words/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/all-that-a-pulitzer-really-does-is-give-the-obit-writers-something-to/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/i-was-getting-money-for-showing-one-man-killing-another-two-lives/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/still-photographs-are-the-most-powerful-weapon-in-the-world-people/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/fear-not-a-thousand-accusing-fingers-if-you-are-right/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/the-general-killed-the-viet-cong-i-killed-the-general-with-my-camera/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

> [If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-adams/if-it-makes-you-laugh-if-it-makes-you-cry-if-it-rips-out-your-heart/)

[Eddie Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-adams/)

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