War Correspondent

🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."

🇺🇸John Steinbeck

Literature

1902–1968

"If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces......So it would; so it will ... then the pieces will be put together again by such as destroyed it."

🇺🇸Chris Hedges

Politics

b. 1956

"An omnipresent surveillance state ... makes democratic dissent impossible. Any state that has the ability to inflict full spectrum dominance on its citizens is not a free state."

🇬🇧Robert Fisk

Journalism

1946–2020

"And where, for God’s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase “coalition forces” come from? There is no “coalition” in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That’s it."

🇬🇧Evelyn Waugh

Journalism

1903–1966

"Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape."

🇺🇸A. J. Liebling

Journalism

1904–1963

"Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit."

🇷🇺Vasily Grossman

Technology

1905–1964

"I have not read your novel but I have carefully read the reviews of your manuscript, responses to it, which contain many excerpts from your novel. Look how many quotes from them I have written down."

🇮🇹Oriana Fallaci

Journalism

1929–2006

"Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense."

🇬🇧B. H. Liddell Hart

Military

1895–1970

"If you want no war, you need to know what war is."

🇺🇸Andy Rooney

Journalism

1919–2011

"I wish people who sell things would stop trying to guess how many of something we want to buy. I want to buy things one at a time."

🇬🇧C. S. Forester

Military

1899–1966

"When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument."

🇺🇸John Dos Passos

Literature

modernist literature

1896–1970

"In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people."

🇭🇺Robert Capa

Journalism

Realism

1913–1954

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough."

"Recent and archived news articles by Sabrina Tavernise of The New York Times"

🇺🇸Martha Gellhorn

Literature

1908–1998

"Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival."

🇺🇸Ed Bradley

Journalism

1941–2006

"60 Minutes has been on the air since 1968, and reporters such as Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, and Andy Rooney have been with the show for many years. The late Ed Bradley was a very popular reporter on the show."

Jack London

Literature

1905–1966

"The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise."

🇦🇺John_Pilger

Education

1939–2023

"There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all."

Rudyard Kipling

Literature

1865–1936

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."