It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Look for some peace organization to join. It will look small at first, and pitiful and helpless, but that’s how movements start.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
