QUOTATIONS

 

WRITING, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL


"For the great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."
G. K. Chesterton

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"
Graham Greene

"I never said I was perfect. I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong."
Jack Deeney

"Artists, in my experience, have very little centre. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception."
John Le Carre

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
John Gardner (Former HEW Secretary)

"Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?"
G. K. Chesterton

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan

"Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction."
Ronald Wilson Reagan

"If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred."
Ralph Peters 


We make war that we may live in peace.”

Aristotle



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