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Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left…

— James Connolly

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Governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

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

Our demands most moderate are: we only want the earth.

Be Moderate (1907)

The cause of labour is the cause of Ireland, the cause of Ireland is the cause of labour.

When questions of “class” interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.

Labour in Irish History (1919)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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