"Just as it is true that a stream……" — James Connolly
"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."
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James Connolly
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29 Quotes by James Connolly
James Connolly has 29 quotes on this site.
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Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and…
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I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but…
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Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
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Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North…
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We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national…
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
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All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes,…
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Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
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The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven…
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Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.
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State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the…
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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
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More Cannot Rise Quotes
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical…
— Watchman Nee
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You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of…
— Zig Ziglar
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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
— Jack London
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
— Orison Swett Marden
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
— Jack London
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so…
— Robin Hobb
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That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
— Henry Miller
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Some people are very identified, say with their country or maybe with their worshipping style , whatever it is. All…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that…
— Blaise Pascal
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