If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share
“The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
