Tom Paulin

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

— Tom Paulin

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

— Tom Paulin

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both…

— Tom Paulin

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they…

— Tom Paulin

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

— Tom Paulin

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

— Tom Paulin

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

— Tom Paulin

I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education,…

— Tom Paulin

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity…

— Tom Paulin

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

— Tom Paulin

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high…

— Tom Paulin

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

— Tom Paulin

If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost…

— Tom Paulin

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house…

— Tom Paulin

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices…

— Tom Paulin

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

— Tom Paulin

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

— Tom Paulin

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social…

— Tom Paulin

Look, you're either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist: there's no middle way. Everyone who supports the state of Israel is a Zionist.

— Tom Paulin

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static…

— Tom Paulin

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

— Tom Paulin

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,…

— Tom Paulin

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies…

— Tom Paulin

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

— Tom Paulin