Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

“People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now, George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.”

Quote by Philip Jones Griffiths

Create image

Author

Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths was a renowned war photographer, best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. His work profoundly documented the cruelty of war and the suffering of ordinary people, leaving a lasting impact on posterity. more

You May Also Like

“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”

PeopleThinkingWayWantBelieveLongGovernmentRunningHumanityPeaceThese DaysProtestPatrioticLong RunsDisobediencePeace And JusticeBeing At PeacePeace JusticePeace And HarmonyAchieving PeaceWorld Peace DayPeace HarmonyPreventive WarPromoting Peace
Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
Create image

“To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.”

MovingExerciseCreaturesCrueltyGod LoveContradictionUnseen
Book:A journal of the life, gospel labors and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman: to which are added, his last epistle, and other writings
Create image