People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology. — 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
