Quotes by Robert Fisk

About Robert Fisk:

Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has been Middle East correspondent of The Independent for more than twenty years, primarily based in Beirut. Fisk holds more British and international journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent and has been voted British International Journalist of the Year award seven times. He has published a number of books and reported on several wars and armed conflicts.
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U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

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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 try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

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When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

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The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Is...

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We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with ...

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I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression...

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A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

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American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

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In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

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President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.

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Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

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The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

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William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Fisk
  • DescriptionEnglish writer and journalist
  • AliasesFisking
  • BornJuly 12, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Historian; Writer