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

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Source : James Connolly (2008). “Socialism and the Irish Rebellion: Writings from James Connolly”, Red & Black Pub

James Connolly

#Government Quotes #Class Quotes #Affair Quotes

“It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.”
“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...”
“Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.”
“Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.”
“There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.”
“The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.”
“You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.”
“The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other”

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