Sean Macbride Quotes

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

- Sean MacBride

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

- Sean MacBride

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.

- Sean MacBride

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.

- Sean MacBride

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

- Sean MacBride

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.

- Sean MacBride