Barbara Deming

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.