Malachy McCourt Quotes
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.
