C. L. R. James Quotes

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.

Tenors get women by the score.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

What would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?"

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Respect a man, he will do the more.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

By seeing differently, we do differently

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!

You can never have too many friends.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

I do not wish to help Jeremy Clarkson be amusing in the event of my death.

A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need to know about hard work. My dad is the most decent man you could come across.