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

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.

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.

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

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.

to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses

You would be very surprise with how much positive changes that you could make in your life, if could make it your top priority to mind your own business.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

He too shares his world with the people he loves.

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.