Civilians Quote by Mark Riebling

The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a…

— Marlon Brando

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in…

— H. G. Wells

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Being an American journalist can put people on the defensive. In countries where people assume the press is partisan, like in Lebanon, or where…

— Annia Ciezadlo

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

— Jim Lehrer

I will say that the difference was that when you're an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you're very…

— Clarence Page

Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes,…

— Tucker Carlson

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new…

— Henry Grunwald

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the…

— Jeremy Scahill

Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

— David Grann

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

— Brit Hume

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

— Nancy Gibbs