Quote by Martha Gellhorn
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow

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

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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill

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