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"One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving."
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"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."
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"Relish what is good and expedient."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth
"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art
"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."
Awareness
"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."
Art
"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
Art
"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
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