Skip to content

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.

— Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Another quote →

Topics

War

More quotes by 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.

The Great War for Civilization (2005)

Now let's be fair. College staff have every right to take their own protection against America's notoriously inaccurate "smart" bombs.

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)

Yesterday, with an inevitability born of the utterly false promise that the bloodbath in Iraq is yielding dividends, we were supposed to believe that the death of Zarqawi was a famous victory.

I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections -- before their "liberators" murdered them.

All Robert Fisk quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

Hunter S. Thompson

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Fisk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.