Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail... You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.