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The Corporation is going to spend a fortune on putting people safely underground, but no money could be found to give them proper housing overground.

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The working men of Ireland had always stood by their priests when there was a price on their heads. They have neither room nor scope for Fascism or Communism.

The Kerryman (1937)

The Pope (Pius XI) was a man before his time, because today, unfortunately, very few of the leaders of the world seemed disposed to accept the advice as fully as the world might accept it.

The Cork Examiner (1939)

Work, but use your head as well as your hands, trust in God and He will never let you down.

The Cork Examiner (1955)

The rising prices and scarcity of some articles of food shows that there is no control of profits.

Irish Press (1941)

Why should films not be used for Irish-Ireland purposes and for the proper appreciation of scenery and beauty?

Irish Independent (1943)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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