John Dos Passos Quotes

As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The most shocking thing about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual human beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

Tragedies ensure in wars. And we’ve seen it in every war. That’s why those who have known war hate it the most.

I find man's inhumanity to man extraordinary,,, I can't get my head around it.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

I'm not desensitized to death.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb Syria, he drew our attention to the victims of chemical warfare. And in both of the Iraq wars, politicians said, "Look at the horrific things that are happening." I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.