Joe Sacco > Quotes

“What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“Some of the world's blackest holes are out
in the open for anyone to see....”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.”
― Joe Sacco, Journalism

“A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“Make no mistake, everywhere you go, not just in Marvel Comics,
there's parallel universes...Here? On the surface streets: traffic, couples in love,
falafel-to-go, tourists in jogging suits licking stamps for postcards... And over the
wall behind closed doors: other things-people strapped to chairs, sleep deprivation,
the smell of piss...other things happening for "reasons of national
security”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“THE INCIDENT
A good riot needs something upon which it can hang its righteous hat, some specific outrage at some specific time and place to serve as the first definitive marker on the road to no return”
― Joe Sacco, The Once and Future Riot

“ومن الناحية الفنية سيكون هذا الزعم صحيحا، فما هي الأكاذيب سوى كونها بعض المزاعم الفنية الوقحة؟”
― Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza

“I'm numbed by so many accounts of incarceration that the sort of thing that raises my brow is a male in his mid-20s who hasn't been arrested...”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine

“První humanitární konvoj dorazil v srpnu `92 se 46 tunami jídla. (Podle odhadů OSN potřeboval Goražde 35 tun denně.)”
― Joe Sacco, Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995

“Hanthala was affectionately embraced as a symbol by the poorest Palestinians; he reminded them of themselves -- impoverished, unwanted, the orphans of the Middle East. But Hanthala was something else too -- he was knowing.

It is the silent stance that must have delighted Hanthala's admirers. His arms are not by his side as in surprise or shock. They are behind his back, hands together, as if inspecting. Hanthala's stance says, Don't mind me. I'm off to the side. Watching. Recording. And I know exactly what you are doing.”
― Joe Sacco, A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

“They ought to take a page from Gandhi's book....they ought to march peacefully to the Israeli barrier enclosing Gaza...and shame the Israelis into ending their oppression

My friend looked at me like I was dipped in shit.

'Joe, THEY WILL SHOOT US.”
― Joe Sacco, War on Gaza

“The journalist must strive to find out what is going on and tell it, not neuter the truth in the name of equal time.”
― Joe Sacco, Journalism

“A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.”
― Joe Sacco, Journalism