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Quotes from The Great War for Civilization — Robert Fisk

1946–2020 England

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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 presence.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority - especially so when governments and politicians take us to war, when they have decided that they will kill and others will die.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Fisk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.