"Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid……" — Robert Fisk
"Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists."
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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