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Against Quotes by Howard Zinn
- 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…
- I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go…
- There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
- War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
- We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in…
- The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger…
- The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for…
- There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people…
- When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
- The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange