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I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

Our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.

Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

They played a game of dare - who could get closest to the flames?

Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.

It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.

As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.

Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!' *

When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.

Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

There are many things one can think of when one needs someone to vent one's wrath on.

Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.

There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

To say nothing means to give one's consent.

Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.