"And history s fingers never relax their grip,……" — Robert Fisk
"And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never imagine their presence."
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Robert Fisk
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35 Quotes by Robert Fisk
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The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How…
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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible…
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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…
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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…
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The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families…
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In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent…
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War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total…
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I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of…
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And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority -…
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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…
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Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
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Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.
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