119 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

From two o'clock one afternoon until the ship docked in England again the next evening at seven, none of the medical personnel stopped work.

Germans trained in obedience and dedicated to moral whitewashing are not a new people, nor are they reliable partners for anyone else.

I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

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