11 quotes
A Surprising Reunion Between Friends
John Cassady
I thought you were dead.
Richard Boyle
Dead? Why, do I look that bad?
John Cassady
Yes.
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A Controversial Wish for Others' Misfortune
Richard Boyle
I hope you all get anal herpes!
[to his captors]
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The Cost of Truth in Proximity
John Cassady
You gotta get close to get the truth. You get too close, you die.
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The Essence of Human Suffering in Photography
John Cassady
You know what made photographers like Robert Cappa great, Rich? They weren't after money, they captured the nobility of human suffering!
Richard Boyle
That was a great shot in Spain. The one flying through the air.
John Cassady
Yeah but it was more than just bodies, Rich. He got... why they died.
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Examining Conscience and Its Consequences
Jack Morgan
You know I'm often asked by people like yourself to examine my conscience and every now and then I do examine it.
Richard Boyle
And what do you find there, Jack?
Jack Morgan
That whatever mistakes we make down here, the alternative would be ten times worse!
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The Consequences of Inaction Against Oppression
Richard Boyle
You let them close down the universities, you let them wipe out the best minds in the countries, you let them kill whoever they want, you let them wipe out the Catholic Church, you let them do it all because they aren't Commies! And that, Colonel, is bull shit!
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Conflict over Justice in War
Richard Boyle
Is this your sense of justice?!
[furious at the sight of how rebels treat their prisoners]
Rebel Woman
It's necessary!
[In Spanish]
Richard Boyle
You've become just like them! You've become just like them!
[pulled away by two rebels]
Rebel Youth
This is war! You don't have the stomach for it! Get out!
Richard Boyle
YOU'VE BECOME JUST LIKE THEM!
[Turns around one last time]
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Political Extremes and a Weak Center
Ambassador Thomas Kelly
A pathological killer on the right, God-knows-what on the left, and a gutless middle.
[about the government in El Salvador]
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Questioning Reality in a Dangerous Place
Doctor Rock
They kill people here, Boyle!
Richard Boyle
Do you believe everything you read in the papers?
Doctor Rock
Yeah I do!
Richard Boyle
Come on man, you're gonna love it here.
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Political Identity and Misunderstanding
Richard Boyle
Left-wing, Colonel? Eh, maybe. But I'm not a Communist. And you guys never seem to be able to tell the difference!
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Critique of Military Intervention and Nostalgia
Richard Boyle
Is that why you're here, Colonel? Some kind of post-Vietnam experience like you need a rerun or something? You pour a hundred twenty million bucks into this place, you turn it into a military zone, so what, so you can have chopper parades in the sky?
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