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One of the less appealing aspects of bachelor communities, be they religious or secular, is that their members very easily become self-centred, self-protective and sadly deficient in compassion. The larger and more powerful the community, the more visible are its defects.

Sydney Morning Herald, 1989.

Power, Religion, Author, Society

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I can write no more today. The contemplation of my sorry state has reduced me to so deep a melancholy that I contemplate opening my wrist like Petronius Arbiter and lapsing quietly into oblivion. Unlike Petronius, however, I shall have neither the sound of music nor the gentle talk of friends. I still have time to choose a better moment — besides, who knows to what nightmares I might awake.

Last lines which he had written for his unfinished work - The Last Confession - 2000, about the last days of Giordano Bruno.

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Would it not be more Christian to open our doors to 800 Vietnamese displaced by war than to send 800 Australians to kill some more of them?

On the Vietnam War: Sydney Morming Herald, 5 June, 1965.

Religion, Ethics, Author

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No man - prince, peasant, pope, - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!"

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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You I admire as being more, - much more - a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? — To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.

The Heretic - 1968 - A play in three acts on the arrest, imprisonment, and trials of Giordano Bruno who was burned at the stake in 1600.

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I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

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