Samantha Power Quotes

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.

When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

There's nothing good that comes out of war. It's simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don't.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.