Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“This was not the velvet embracing desert sky at El Geneina; this was infinite space. The idea of no boundaries, no end, is terrifying… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
![“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange…” quote by Martha Gellhorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4c3/martha-gellhorn-8061_activity_perhaps-these-men-in-the-house-caucus-ro_3015733.jpg)
