"Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens."

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

Martha Gellhorn

#Hero Quotes #Government Quotes #Justice Quotes

“On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.”
“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”
“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”
“Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.”
“In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.”
“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.”
“To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.”

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