Quotes by Tim Hetherington

As anyone who has experienced it will know, war is many contradictory things. There is brutality and heroism, comedy and tragedy, friendship, hate, love and boredom. War is absurd yet fundamental, despicable yet beguiling, unfair yet with its own strange logic. Rarely are people back home exposed to these contradictions — society tends only to highlight those qualities it needs, to construct its own particular narrative.

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and Ive been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and Ive been doing this for a long time now.

Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.