Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.