Peter Mullan Quotes

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

They all did it – by which I mean, virtually the entire hierarchy is complicit to a greater or lesser degree in shuffling child-molesting priests around, or keeping them in some way in a position to commit their crimes. Why? Clericalism. The clerical class is what mattered most to these people, not the children and their families...

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

In my experience in Washington, when people refuse to come clean, it is usually because they are hiding dirty laundry.

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.

I ordered that they use any means necessary, including illegal means, to accomplish this goal. . . . The president of the United States can never admit that.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

The political elite has never told the truth.

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings.

I entered Parliament with what I thought to be the lowest possible opinion of the average member. I came out with one still lower.

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who will contract out the messy things in life: the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show: and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

The revolt against the Papacy was essentially a struggle between exploiters and exploited, not a struggle over mere ecclesiastical dogmas or vague slogans, such as a struggle between “authority” and “individualism.” The Popes hastened their own destruction by becoming increasingly contemptible. This is the fate of every ruling class that has become obsolete and is approaching extinction. Their functions dwindle as their wealth grows, and nothing remains for them to do but dissipate the proceeds of their extortions.

The corrupt are running out of places to hide.

Our Pentagon has a reputation for not telling the truth.

The reality often times does not match the rhetoric. The rhetoric is very easy if you keep the reality secret.

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.