Jeremy Cronin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
-- Jeremy Cronin

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Jeremy Cronin famous quotes

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