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

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.

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.

O LORD GOD let thy glory fill the earth as it is in heaven.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.