Sean MacBride Quotations

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.