All Howard Zinn Quotes
- They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government. Country
- I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some… Adopt
- To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… Bad
- 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 intervention… Atheism
- Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether… Coming
- If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your… Better
- There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is… Anyone
- Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils… Along
- ...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single… All
- ...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. Allegiance
- I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see… Antiwar
- With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and… Aggressor
- War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. Cause
- We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior… Balance
- 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 so… All
- If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists End
- We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example… Been
- The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law.… Allocates
- If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if… Agitating
- The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends… Chief