To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else
BERNADETTE DEVLINHere, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody’s lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.
More Bernadette Devlin Quotes
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I think my life will always be worth living, though I don’t imagine it being very easy.
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I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.
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Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe’s oddest countries.
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One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
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I’m not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.
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I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn’t my business.
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Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
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My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.
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The Irish aren’t great singers, but they have great songs.
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland.
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It wasn’t long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.
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We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
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