James Nachtwey Quotes

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

I was trying to disturb the war.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Has any anti-war demonstration ever stopped a war?

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

I was against the war in Iraq.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

Fight the fighters, not their wars.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

When we, the Workers, all demand: “What are we fighting for?’… Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness--War.