Quotes by Bruce Jackson

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

— Bruce Jackson

Life

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

— Bruce Jackson

Life

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.

— Bruce Jackson

Freedom

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

— Bruce Jackson

Friendship

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

— Bruce Jackson

Education

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

— Bruce Jackson

Wisdom