Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, li...ke the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed t...o me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings ...about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological... paralysis, more than it is about winning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether our relationship is strained or easy, hostile or amiable, we need [our mother] if only in memory or fantasy, to conjugate ...our history, validate our femaleness, and guide our way. We need to know she's there if we stumble, to love us no matter what, to nurture the child that resides within us even now without infantalizing us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »