United states Quotes by Howard Zinn

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

— Howard Zinn

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

— Howard Zinn

Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests,…

— Howard Zinn

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United…

— Howard Zinn

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an…

— Howard Zinn

The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is…

— Howard Zinn

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,…

— Howard Zinn

The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom…

— Howard Zinn

People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.…

— Howard Zinn

If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to…

— Howard Zinn

My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will…

— Howard Zinn

There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their…

— Howard Zinn

The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful…

— Howard Zinn

Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across…

— Howard Zinn

The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only…

— Howard Zinn

The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring…

— Howard Zinn