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I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

— Brendan Behan Brendan Behan: Man and Showman (1966)

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There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

The World of Brendan Behan (1966)

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Interviews and Recollections (1982)

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

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A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone.

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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973)

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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