[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile,… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others. — 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
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