"And it's true, you hear things in Damascus……" — Robert Fisk
"And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating."
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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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And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never…
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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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More Damascus Quotes
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I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad,…
— Hassan Rouhani
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I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near…
— Eleanor of Aquitaine
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I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort…
— Andy Serkis
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I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi:…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history…
— Tahir Shah
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He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill…
— Mike Huckabee
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In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?
— Robert Fisk
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are…
— Bayard Taylor
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all…
— Bayard Taylor
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Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced…
— Russell D. Moore
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