Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with whom we share the world.

As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.

The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave the country as good as he had found it.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.

All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had. In the U.S., we seem to be very selfish because the older generation is not making the sacrifices.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.

Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.