"The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned……" — Sean O'Casey
"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 than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood."
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Sean O'Casey
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39 Quotes by Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey has 39 quotes on this site.
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from…
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner…
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold,…
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A waste land lit by holy candles.
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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