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Such 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch…
- And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not…
- The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such…
- Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
More Such Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- 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 must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough