Quotes by Halliday Sutherland

“Moral catastrophes inevitably lead to physical catastrophes.”

“Is there anything to hide? [addressing Bishop Michael Browne Galway, on seeking permission to visit the Magdalene Laundry at Galway]”

“There are some self-styled eugenists who declaim that the prevention of disease is not in itself a good thing. They say the efficiency of the State is based upon what they call ‘the survival of the fittest.’ This war has smashed their rhetorical phrase. Who talks now about survival of the fittest, or thinks himself fit because he survives? I don’t know what they mean. I do know that in preventing disease you are not preserving the weak, but conserving the strong.”