Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges … - Martha Gellhorn

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With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

Martha Gellhorn

Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

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People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics. ' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. '. . . If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

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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.

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

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Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

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