Skip to content

I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.

— John Pilger

Another quote →

More quotes by John Pilger

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.

The problem with media-run "conversations" on gender is not merely the almost total absence of male participants, but the suppression of class.

The censorship is such on television in the US that films like mine don't stand a chance.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

Hidden Agendas (1998)

All John Pilger quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Pilger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.