Robert Fisk Quotes

The troops are at war, but the Pentagon is not.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

The uniformed military are usually the last ones who want to intervene, because they're the ones who are going to get shot at and they're the ones who will get the blame.

We confused the warriors with the war.

I'm not a war reporter.

War is the science of destruction.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I'm not a military strategist.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'