Tuesday, November 12, 2013

War Is Hell

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The Habit of Lies


“It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. 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.”

It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. 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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It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. 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.
Read more at http://quotes.dictionary.com/it_took_nine_years_and_a_great_depression#OtQE4S66mMBPu1oS.99
  —Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), famed war correspondent and novelist, from her book, The Face of War (1959) New York Times obit

• Editorial Comment: Ernie Pyle: “War makes strange giant creatures out of us routine little men who inhabit the earth.”

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