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Mcgivern Way Quotes By Noel McGivern

The Catholic Church wants to see child abuse by priests and nuns as simply an issue of some very bad priests and nuns. What it needs to understand is that the nature of religion compounded the problem. It allowed priests to have a status that placed them above suspicion. It fostered a myth that celibacy meant purity. It had schools that enforced authority by beating children and taught that authority figures should not be questioned. Men like Smyth and Steele will have understood the esteem in which priests were held and seen themselves as untouchable. They had every reason to, as the Catholic Church did a great deal to defend and enable them. — Noel McGivern

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Arthur Koestler

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Stephen Fry

Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appear to be very intelligent, and unlike Richard Fawcett and me, seemed uninterested in words, ideas and the world. But one day he said to me:
'I've got it now. It's reading isn't it?'
'I'm sorry?'
'You read a lot, don't you? That's where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.'
The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse novel in his hands. I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. When I heard, some years later, that he had got into Cambridge I thought to myself, I know how that happened. He decided one day to read. — Stephen Fry

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Jason Fried

Meetings: "They often include at least one moron who inevitably
gets his turn to waste everyone's time
with nonsense". — Jason Fried

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Gustave Flaubert

Rich or poor, victors or vanquished, I make no allowance for any of them. I don't want love or hate, pity or anger. Sympathy is another matter. There is never enough of that. — Gustave Flaubert

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Frederick Philip Grove

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper. — Frederick Philip Grove

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Jimmy Carter

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way. — Jimmy Carter

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Steven Pressfield

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead. — Steven Pressfield

Mcgivern Way Quotes By Ram Sai Nag

Once up on a time she was a heroine who used to cry with glycerine. Now she can cry without glycerine. Nothing is permanent in this world, — Ram Sai Nag