Sinn'd Quotes

#1. Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence. - Author: William Davenant

#2. Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect and enhance public services, support those most in need, and to progress Irish Unity. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#3. The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA. - Author: Sean Kane

#4. I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning. - Author: William Shakespeare

#5. My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love! - Author: Francis Beaumont

#6. The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#7. Sinn Fein is committed to promoting and enhancing reconciliation, and in recent years, I and other members of my party have taken a number of significant initiatives aimed to advance this process. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#8. While others have walked away from their responsibilities, the Sinn Fein team will work with the other ministers in partnership to deliver for all the people. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#9. We've had a very consistent position down the years. Sinn Fein is not in favour of abortion, and we resisted any attempt to bring the British 1967 Abortion Act to the north. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#10. The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to a reduced rate of corporation tax of 12.5 % by 2018. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#11. Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of
human existence."29 - Author: Udo Schnelle

#12. That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so. - Author: Peter Hain

#13. Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#14. In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#15. That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment? ... "
-Jules, BOOM - Author: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

#16. I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#17. The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#18. I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#19. The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#20. We are not going into government with Sinn Fein - Author: Ian Paisley

#21. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. - Author: Gerry Adams

#22. What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom - Author: Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

#23. Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. - Author: Gerry Adams

#24. I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party. - Author: Hans-Werner Sinn

#25. But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#26. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity. - Author: John Donne

#27. Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#28. Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland. - Author: Jeremy Corbyn

#29. Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#30. I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them. - Author: Peter T. King

#31. I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer. - Author: Hans-Werner Sinn

#32. Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa. - Author: Gerry Adams

#33. I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line. - Author: Hans-Werner Sinn

#34. On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission. - Author: Martin McGuinness

#35. Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers". - Author: Eddie Mair

#36. Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation. - Author: Martin McGuinness