Joseph Pearce famous quotes

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  • We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  • Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

  • There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  • Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.

  • Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

  • Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

  • POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

  • Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

  • The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

  • Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.