The James Connolly Internet Archive - Extensive archive of works by Connolly who was founder of the Irish Socialist Revolutionary Party, a trade union organiser, and a leader in the 1916 Easter Rising.
James Connolly Society - Organisation dedicated to promoting Connolly's ideas. Includes a biography of the Irish revolutionary, writings by Connolly, and information about the society.
Connolly and the Easter Rising - On the 85th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Alan Woods and Ted Grant look at the life and ideas of the great Irish revolutionary socialist James Connolly.
Connolly Ain't Nothing but a Train Station in Dublin - Article by Jacqueline Dana exploring the expropriation of Connolly's name and legacy by Irish republicans who have no commitment to or understanding of his ideas.
Corpus of Electronic Texts: James Connolly - Site includes various works about Irish republicanism by Connolly including "the Worker's Republic," "Socialism and Nationalism" and "The Reconquest of Ireland" and a chronology of his life.
Socialism and Nationalism - A series of essays on the integration of Irish republicanism and socialism written by James Connolly in 1897. .
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Connolly, James Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Connolly, James
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Connolly, James "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Connolly, James
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Connolly, James blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Connolly, James
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Connolly, James Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Connolly, James
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Connolly, James If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Connolly, James
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Connolly, James You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Connolly, James
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Connolly, James "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Connolly, James
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Connolly, James "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Connolly, James
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Connolly, James "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Connolly, James
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Connolly, James "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Connolly, James
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Connolly, James Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Connolly, James
