one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
“I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest” — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only eighty years… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share
