James Connolly Quotes

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations and then shut up shop

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Revolution, not elections!

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.