The general killed the Viet Cong I killed the general with my camera.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)