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The Irish Penal Refrom Trust - Organisation campaigning for the creation of a more rational and humane penal system, promoting constructive approaches to offenders, and seeking in every way to increase respect for human rights. General information, policy documents, news, an FAQ page, links and contact are offered in Flash and non-Flash formats.
Amnesty International Ireland - Human rights organization. News, campaign details and network information.
The Irish Red Cross Society - The Irish member of one of the leading humanitarian groups in the world, assisting in areas as diverse as first aid training and cover, emergency relief for the developing world, babysitter training, respite care and mountain rescue. The site offers a range of information, including donation material and an online donation facility.
The Openminds Consultancy - Helps Irish organisations with equality training and services in the context of increased racial, ethnic, religious and other forms of diversity in Ireland.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Human Rights Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Human Rights Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Human Rights We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Human Rights "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Human Rights CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen Human Rights May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Human Rights Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. -- Anonymous "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Human Rights Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Human Rights Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Human Rights Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Human Rights Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Human Rights Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr Human Rights The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes Human Rights Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Human Rights I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Human Rights They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Human Rights "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Human Rights I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Human Rights The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. Human Rights Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood Human Rights "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Human Rights
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