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Us Quotes by Howard Zinn
- To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,…
- What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do…
- Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their…
- To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the…
- The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis…
- The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us
- If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
- Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
- 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…
- We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared…
- The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is…
- 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…
- If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country,…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong