Robert Capa Quotes

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.

I have to tell you, in my judgment, some of us sitting here today will not come back alive from this campaign. I want you to think about it.

I was no stranger to risk myself, having made documentaries in dangerous conditions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Africa.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

You won't take risk without courage.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Courage in danger is half the battle.