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Robert Fisk has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I…
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look…
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I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin…
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It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and…
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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised…
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…
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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their…
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former…
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Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because…
— Bill Maher
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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia
— Edward James Olmos
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other…
— Jello Biafra
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In Sarajevo and in Syria, these are societies - in Bosnia, in Serbia, in Kosovo, in Syria - where ethnicities live side…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.
— Robert Fisk
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
— John Keegan
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing,…
— Christiane Amanpour
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Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.
— Jill Dando
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I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.
— Emir Kusturica
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
— Fatos Nano
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