The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

The great appear great to us.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

When our challenge persists, returning in different forms, it may be a sign for us to accepted it as a valuable lesson.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

I hope you find what you’re looking for,” Micah said. “I’ve already stopped looking,” Damon said quietly. “It’s kind of hard to look for something you’ve stopped believing in.

Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.