It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: means-and-ends
They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: injustice social-action social-justice social-development
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: communication journalism media-bias
They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: class-division social-class
That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.
Joseph O'ConnorLove and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: love injustice freedom cruelties
But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary things. A hat left on the floor of a café in Kingstown, a proverb overheard, an old fisherman mending a net: these, for him, were a kind of incitement. There are no answers other than that. He was not like the rest of us. Not even like himself. His imagination, or soul, or whatever province of his mind was hungry for the sustaining rain of the world, would soak in the storms of his own haunted strangeness, and the berries would bloom, and they were what they were, and if the tendrils were peculiar, and some of them wild, the fruits were so shockingly luscious and potent that the thirsty were willing to savour the bitter for the sake of the concomitant sweet. He needed the very ordinary. He was a beautiful man. What more than this need be said? The sort of man who makes you think the movement of foliage might be causing the breeze.
Joseph O'ConnorTag: genius
Happy as a threaded needle
Joseph O'ConnorThe English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.
Joseph O'ConnorThe world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.
Joseph O'ConnorPagina 1 di 2.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.