James P Cannon Quotes

#1. Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

Roger Federer

#2. The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

James P. Cannon

#3. No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

James P. Cannon

#4. I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war - which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races - to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!

James McKeen Cattell

#5. These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

James P. Cannon

#6. Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

Anne Frank

#7. I miss you."
"That's stupid," she said. "I saw you this morning."
"It's not the time," Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling." It's the distance.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

James P. Cannon

#9. brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed

James Cannon

#10. Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

James P. Cannon

#11. A trapper but this rappin got me going places you'll never go!

Gucci Mane

#12. A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

James Harrington

#13. You think you are a lot funnier than you are, you know," he replied, not looking away from the cannon.

"I am extremely amusing! I don't think you are listening properly.

Lauren James

#14. No matter what the other side does to you, you grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It drives them crazy.

James Lee Burke

#15. You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.

Bela Lugosi

#16. Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

Joseph Joubert

#17. I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

Tyler, The Creator

#18. The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

James P. Cannon

#19. The world is a globe - the farther you sail, the closer to home you are.

Terry Pratchett

#20. You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

Tony La Russa

#21. If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

Kurt Cobain

#22. The striver in him knew that his first aim must be to rise in the system he dreamed of liberating.

John Le Carre