Citas de Martha Gellhorn

• La gente suele decir, con orgullo, 'no me interesa la política'. También podrían decir: 'No me interesa mi nivel de vida, mi salud, mi trabajo, mis derechos, mis libertades, mi futuro o cualquier futuro'. ... Si queremos mantener algún control sobre nuestro mundo y nuestras vidas, debemos interesarnos por la política.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Jobs, Mean, Pride

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• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Government, Disease

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.7, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Lying, People, Deceit

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.1, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Teacher, Fear

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books

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• Sé lo suficiente para saber que ninguna mujer debe casarse con un hombre que odiaba a su madre.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Amor, Relación, Matrimonio

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• ¿Por qué la gente habla de los horrores de la vejez? Es estupendo. Me siento como un buen coche viejo con las piezas desgastándose poco a poco, pero no me quejo,... Los que consideran que envejecer es terrible son personas que no han hecho lo que querían con su vida.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Car, People, Age

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• Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Freedom, Loneliness, Possession

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Self Esteem, Self, Survival

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Holocaust

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• 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

  Hero, Government, Justice

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.400, Granta Books

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• Todos los políticos son aburridos, mentirosos y farsantes. Yo hablo con la gente.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Liars, People, Fake

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• La ciudadanía es una dura ocupación que obliga al ciudadano a formarse su propia opinión con conocimiento de causa y a mantenerla.

  Martha Gellhorn

  House, Citizens, Occupation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Love, Loneliness, Safety

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.

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• I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Notas a pie de página

  "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Remember, Tyranny, Vigilance

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.332, Granta Books

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• ... people miss a great deal by being sensible.

  Martha Gellhorn

  People, Missing, Sensible

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.223, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Fate, Trying, Useless

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Lasts, Protection

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.220, Granta Books

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• In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Winter, Long, November

  "Martha Gellhorn: A Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, 2003.

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• All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Travel, Self Esteem, Journey

  Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

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• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Eye, Rights, Democracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The View from the Ground”, p.284, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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 to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Home, Men, Sheep

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• travel is compost for the mind

  Martha Gellhorn

  Mind, Compost

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• Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Outsiders, Inquiring, Bureaucracy

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.313, Granta Books

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