"Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world."

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Source : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.34, Pluto Press

James Connolly

#Destiny Quotes #Self Quotes #Independence Quotes

“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.”

Source : "Ask an Expert: 'Shark Tank' judge on being an entrepreneur". Interview with Steve Strauss, www.usatoday.com. February 24, 2012.
“Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2016). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.240, Oxford University Press
“I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.”
“It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.”
“Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and ***** wanna play chess now”
“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
“Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces to the floor and trace woodgrain lines for me, says one. Mine will sacrifice animals, says another. Mine will kill anyone who insults me, says a third. Here is the question I think of most often: "Are there any who can honestly boast, My worshippers obey my good laws, and treat each other kindly, and live simple generous lives?”

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