Quote by Martha Gellhorn
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of rep

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. – Mikhail Bakunin

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