the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. Martha Gellhorn More Quotes by Martha Gellhorn More Quotes From Martha Gellhorn The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things. Martha Gellhorn survivor quality race Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders. Martha Gellhorn inquiring outsiders bureaucracy Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others. Martha Gellhorn journalism people I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents. Martha Gellhorn partners worst bed The world's fat is badly divided. Martha Gellhorn rich poor world travel is compost for the mind Martha Gellhorn compost mind Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed. Martha Gellhorn enough life-is long There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. Martha Gellhorn camps concentration france Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. Martha Gellhorn kindness country promise 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 heart men war It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. Martha Gellhorn bitterness imagination would-be the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world. Martha Gellhorn protection lasts world Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance. Martha Gellhorn vigilance tyranny remember 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 self-esteem journey travel 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 week causes proud 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 democracy eye rights 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 our-world government needs 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 pain tree fall America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won. Martha Gellhorn hurt heart war My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Martha Gellhorn boredom definitions journey
