Peace Quotes by Howard Zinn

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

— Howard Zinn

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

— Howard Zinn

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

— Howard Zinn

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social…

— Howard Zinn

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate…

— Howard Zinn

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

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

— Howard Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the…

— Howard Zinn

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

— Howard Zinn

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

— Howard Zinn

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

— Howard Zinn

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media,…

— Howard Zinn

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…

— Howard Zinn

“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom…

— Howard Zinn

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death…

— Howard Zinn

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to…

— Howard Zinn

War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,…

— Howard Zinn

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

Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed…

— Howard Zinn

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,…

— Howard Zinn

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

“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed…

— Howard Zinn

“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

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

— Howard Zinn