Conor Cruise O Brien Inspirational Quotes (11)

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

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

British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

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

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

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

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.