Top 16 Quotes About Irish Nationalism
#1. I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
Colm Toibin
#2. I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
#4. I belonged to him the way that a good idea belonged to the person who thought it.
Laurelin Paige
#5. And I was wondering how to depart without self-loathing or sadness, or with as little as possible, when a kind of immense sigh all around me announced it was not I who was departing, but the flock.
Samuel Beckett
#6. My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
James Green Somerville
#7. The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#8. Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.
Louis MacNeice
#9. Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
George R R Martin
#10. The public response to feminism has been ferociously defensive precisely because feminism touches such a deep nerve of truth and the denial that keeps us from it. If feminism were truly ridiculous, it would be ignored. But it isn't ridiculous, and so provokes a vigorous backlash.
Allan G. Johnson
#11. Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children
Madeleine Bunting
#12. My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles.
Blake Lively
#13. By associating Arjuna and Krishna to Nara and Narayana, Vyasa makes them creatures of destiny. Their birth is not random; they are born for a reason.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#14. Want to know what's more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.
Kim Jong-un
#15. The type of weapon you prefer and in which you have most faith,is the best for you.
John "Pondoro" Taylor
#16. The Hamptons remind me of my childhood vacations. I love the beach, restaurants, and produce found on the East End.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
