Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime Quotes

“Unfortunately, the struggle can degenerate from the affirmation of a language and/or culture to the point of tradition at all costs, especially that of the individual, i.e., tradition at the expense of existence, where art becomes simply heritage, from there the path spirals downwards into “blood and soil” politics, the “purity” of the language into the “purity” of the race, and so on.”
― James Kelman, Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

“So far from allowing a person the “right” of self-determination the powers-that-be have proscribed the “right” to self-expression, as is the case in one way or another in almost every country in the world, including Britain.”
― James Kelman, Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter

“Value-systems are controlled by the occupying force. Those who assimilate receive the reward: they pass.”
― James Kelman, Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter