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

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

Martha Gellhorn

#War Quotes #Government Quotes #Disease Quotes

“... FAITH: ... Full Assurance In The Heart.”
“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”
“Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazzâ€™s unsung heroes”
“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sunâ€™s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but itâ€™s still one light.”
“It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.”
“I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.”

Source : "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.
“You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”
“... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.”

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