The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompr…

- James Joll

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

- James Joll

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit fro…

- James Joll