“ The fear syndrome [a species of propaganda], by exaggerating Vietcong power for destruction, misplaces the real pain of the real war, and is immensely dangerous. It leads to hysteria, to hawk-demands… Martha Gellhorn
“ A dock worker from East Ham also spoke of freedom. You'll never find the English going Communist he said. We don't like it. It's not true Communism, it dictatorial. We want to say what we think. I'm a… Martha Gellhorn
“ It is not easy to be the citizen of a Superpower, nor is it getting easier. I would feel isolated with my shame if I were not sure that I belong, among millions of Americans, to a perennial minority o… Martha Gellhorn
“ Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity. Martha Gellhorn
“ None had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in the dark waters of a cave; and were blind. Martha Gellhorn
“ In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged by what it was and what it is in other satellite count… Martha Gellhorn
“ It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn
“ Dr. Soekarno was always exactly what he was in the beginning, a whizz-bang demagogue, an opportunist, just another little dictator. U.S. officialdom never tires of backing that type. Nor does U.S. off… Martha Gellhorn
“ The men in Washington seem unable to accept that there are more poor people than rich peoplele in the world. They do not recognize that poor people, in the late twentieth century, cannot endure povert… Martha Gellhorn
“ Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people wh… Martha Gellhorn
“ In democracies where the citizens may read, hear or say what they like, the leaders are no better and no worse than the followers. So perhaps, if we cannot blame the leaders because the job of peacema… Martha Gellhorn
“ Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967]. Martha Gellhorn
“ Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job. Martha Gellhorn
“ What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain. Martha Gellhorn
“ It is amazing that the refugees stay sane. First the bombs, perhaps the battle around them, their casualties, their naked helplessness; then the flight, leaving behind everything they have worked for… Martha Gellhorn
“ The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. Martha Gellhorn
“ Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it. Martha Gellhorn
“ A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it bac… Martha Gellhorn
