There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.