Tom Paulin Quotes

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Didn't I seize the fire of ideas and make them leap, tear, fly, sing

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I think protest and actions have to be organised against the Israelis and their backers. There needs to be a concerted high profile campaign to raise awareness of the people in this country.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.