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Been Quotes by Howard Zinn
- 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…
- Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
- 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…
- Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of…
- Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They…
- Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
- Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
- Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of…
- There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
- Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
- Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of…
More Been Quotes
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour