Gerald Hanley > Quotes

“Of all the races in Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest, the somalis" Gerald Hanley Irish Writter and soldier in Brittish Army.”
― Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis

“We do not know the size and strength of our manias until they fall upon us and drag us down, or the barrenness of our inner deserts until real loneliness, fear, bewilderment and sun-madness have cast us into them.”
― Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis

“It is living in civilization that keeps us civilized. It is very surprising, and alarming at first, how swiftly it vanishes when one is threatened by other men, men of almost mindless resolve.”
― Gerald Hanley, Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis