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Most Quotes by Howard Zinn
- Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly…
- Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
- What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White…
- Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
- What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to…
- But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
- Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are…
- Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
- 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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster