Quotes About James Connolly

#1. My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

Frances O'Grady

#2. Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

James Connolly

#3. Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.

James Connolly

#4. I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.

James A. Connolly

#5. The great appear great to us ...

James Connolly

#6. However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

James Connolly

#7. At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense.

Cheech Marin

#8. I can live with failure if it is born of conviction.

Hugh Jackman

#9. Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Steven Tyler

#10. The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

James Connolly

#11. We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

James Connolly

#12. Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

James Connolly

#13. Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left ...

James Connolly

#14. There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

James Connolly

#15. No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

James Connolly

#16. We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

James Connolly

#17. Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

James Connolly

#18. Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

James Connolly

#19. Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

James Connolly

#20. The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

James Connolly

#21. They'll shoot me I dont care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck I dont care down with big brother

George Orwell

#22. The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

James Connolly

#23. Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

James Connolly

#24. Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

James Connolly

#25. Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

Deepak Chopra

#26. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#27. I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

James Connolly

#28. Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

#29. If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

James Connolly

#30. The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

James Connolly

#31. The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

James Connolly

#32. Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

James Connolly

#33. The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

#34. James Woods is great. I actually did a movie with James Woods in 2000: 'John Q.'

Kevin Connolly

#35. I can't hide my feelings.

Jack Kemp

#36. James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.

Kevin Connolly

#37. This feat has been achieved largely by appealing to the racism and vulnerability of lower-class whites, a group of people who are understandably eager to ensure that they never find themselves trapped at the bottom of the American totem pole.

Michelle Alexander

#38. The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

Matthew Specktor

#39. Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Zach Galifianakis

#40. From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Dada Vaswani