“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.”

“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”

“The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.”

“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.”

“Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.”

“North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more devastating violence than that of armed groups, even if the latter are spectacular.”