Martha Gellhorn Quotes About War

• 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

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• Estados Unidos no ha reparado a los vietnamitas, nada. Somos el pueblo más rico del mundo y ellos están entre los más pobres. Les maltratamos, aunque nunca nos hicieron daño, y no podemos encontrar en nuestros corazones, en nuestro honor, la forma de ayudarles, porque el gobierno de Vietnam es comunista. Y tal vez porque ellos ganaron.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Hurt, War, Heart

• La guerra le pasa a la gente, una por una. Eso es realmente todo lo que tengo que decir y me parece que lo he estado diciendo siempre. A menos que sean víctimas inmediatas, la mayoría de la humanidad se comporta como si la guerra fuera un acto de Dios que no puede evitarse; o se comporta como si la guerra en otros lugares no fuera asunto suyo. Sería una amarga broma cósmica que nos destruyéramos a nosotros mismos debido a la atrofia de la imaginación.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Imagination, People

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

• Tras los años desesperados de su propia guerra, tras seis años de represión dentro de España y seis años de horror en el exilio, este pueblo permanece intacto de espíritu. Están armados con una fe trascendente; nunca han vencido y, sin embargo, nunca han aceptado la derrota.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Guerra, Años, Gente

• Me enteré de la guerra de España porque estaba en Alemania cuando empezó.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Germany, Found

• 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

  War, Writing, Should

• I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Umpires

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The Face of War”, p.83, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Guerra, Corazón, Hombres

  Martha Gellhorn (2014). “The Face of War”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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