If one man can create that much hate, you can only imagine how much love we together can create. Violence creates violence, hate creates hate.
– Norwegian Labour Party MP Stine Renate Håheim, who was on Utoeya island when Anders Behring Breivik was shooting dead young people there, quoting a survivor’s response to his murderous rampage. The comment was quoted in Oslo Cathedral by the prime minister Jens Stoltenberg at a memorial service last Sunday.
Our answer [to Breivik] is more democracy, more openness and more humanity – but never naivety.– Stoltenberg denying that Norway would change for the worse
Ireland can pass all the laws it likes but it should understand that the church will never accept the obligation on a confessor to report to civil authorities.– Msgr Gianfranco Girotti signalling no change from the Vatican.
We are living through a national crisis and while we can be thankful that our children are not going off to war and that famine is not stalking the land, we are in the midst of a financial storm which has shaken families throughout the country . . . judges are very aware of the current crisis.– New Chief Justice Susan Denham.
The board decided that the differences could not be resolved and, acting in the interests of the organisation as a whole and, most importantly, its mission, it decided unanimously to end her contract.– Unicef statement explaining why it sacked its chief executive Melanie Verwoerd (adding that she had cashed her payoff cheque).