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People Quotes by James Nachtwey
- There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!
- I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve…
- I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
- Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
- If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish,…
- If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way.…
- The most incomprehensible situation I've ever witnessed was Rwanda where we don't really know how many people died; the estimate of half a million to…
- I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise families,…
- And I realized that many of the people I was photographing might have been the very ones who had committed the massacres that I had…
- It's more difficult to get publications to focus on issues that are more critical, that do not provide people with as escape from reality but…
- But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop…
- I'm a messenger. I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them to be concerned about the people in the pictures. I…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle