And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Some of the guys in the Northern Alliance are war criminals. One of the Northern Alliance commanders ran a slave girl network… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
If it is bin Laden, he's a very intelligent guy. He's been planning his war for a long time. I remember the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was constantly revolving in his mind the fact that he had got rid of the Russians; therefore, the Americans can be got… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
How could believers, people who regard themselves as true Muslims, get on those planes, quoting the words of God delivered through the Prophet to… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought:… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence of Osama bin Laden fault and then never produced… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image