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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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