Quoted in the documentary Art in a Word by Vera Baghiroli, qoob tv (22 July 2008).
Quoted in the documentary The Question Mark Inside broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts (30 October 2009).
Futurist Ray Kurweil Bring Dead Father Back to Life http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/futurist-ray-kurzweil-bring-dead-father-back-life/story?id14267712 (2011)
“What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.”
Speech at the Nobel Banquet https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-speech_en.html (10 December 2015)
Commencement speech, Stanford University (2007-06-17)
Speeches and lectures
“Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.”
Source: They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children: The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.”
Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/story?id=12325140&page=2#.UE0Vm67hdjw; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, <!-- p. 46-47 --> and in First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender (2005) by James R. Hansen<!-- p. 399 -->
Context: I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul … we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
