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Conor Cruise O'Brien

(1917–2008) Politician

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Conor Cruise O'Brien was a politician.

Quick Facts About Conor Cruise O'Brien

Born: November 3, 1917
Died: December 18, 2008
Profession: Politician

About Conor Cruise O'Brien

[Wikidata] Irish politician, writer, historian and academic (1917-2008)... | [Wikipedia] Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien, often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 to 1977, a Senator for Dublin University from 1977 to 1979, a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin No

Quotes by Conor Cruise O'Brien

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…

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Capacity

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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

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Apathy

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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a…

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Agents

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You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

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Appeals

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The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

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Islands

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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…

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Appeals

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In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.'…

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Als

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“Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and…

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Charles-dickens

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You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

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Agnostic

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Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

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Christian

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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

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Appeal

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A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

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Advice

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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…

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America

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Nothing does more to activateChristian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

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Christian unity

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British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a…

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Allies

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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

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Being there

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Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish…

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Being irish

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