James Larkin Quotes

• Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

  James Larkin

  Country, Intolerance, Curse

  55 Copy quote

• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  James Larkin

  Fighting, Men, Race

  20 Copy quote

• Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

  James Larkin

  Want, Method, Workers

  5 Copy quote

• The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

  James Larkin

  Acquiescence, Carrying On, Profit

  16 Copy quote

• Comrades - We are living in momentous times!

  James Larkin

  Comrade

  31 Copy quote

• We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

  James Larkin

  Inspiration, Movement, Threshold

  12 Copy quote

• The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

  James Larkin

  Land, People, Ireland

  14 Copy quote

• We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

  James Larkin

  Smile, Mistake, Funeral

  15 Copy quote

• Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

  James Larkin

  Men, Russia, Men And Women

  8 Copy quote

• There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

  James Larkin

  Book, Thinking, Worship

  9 Copy quote

• I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

  James Larkin

  Catholic, Protestants, Sectarianism

  20 Copy quote

• I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

  James Larkin

  Mean, People, Development

  12 Copy quote

• The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

  James Larkin

  Determination, Class, Goal

  9 Copy quote

• It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

  James Larkin

  Mean, Men, Justice

  8 Copy quote

• The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

  James Larkin

  Fate, Land, Humanity

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

  11 Copy quote

• Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

  James Larkin

  Home, Fighting, Hands

  13 Copy quote

• A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

  James Larkin

  Degrees, Satisfaction, Gains

  10 Copy quote

• The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

  James Larkin

  Soul, World, Publicity

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

  14 Copy quote

• The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

  James Larkin

  Blow, Men, Broken

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

  9 Copy quote

• I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

  James Larkin

  Inspirational, People, Sobriety

  6 Copy quote

• The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

  James Larkin

  Outcomes, Matter, Birth

  9 Copy quote

• Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

  James Larkin

  Liberty, Worship, Individual

  5 Copy quote

• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

  James Larkin

  Cancer, Cutting, Class

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

  9 Copy quote

• I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

  James Larkin

  House, Bars, Lips

  6 Copy quote

• I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

  James Larkin

  Men, Causes, Cleaning

  6 Copy quote

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