"But by this time I was acutely conscious……" — Howard Zinn
"But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation."
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154 Quotes by Howard Zinn
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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
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More Acutely Quotes
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes,…
— A. C. Benson
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still…
— Agatha Christie
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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the…
— Chris Christie
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
— P.J. O'Rourke
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
— Thomas Reid
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Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So…
— Elie Wiesel
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is…
— William E. Simon
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
— Patrick Warburton
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We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those…
— Walter Lippmann
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Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is…
— Jean Toomer
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five…
— Yukio Mishima
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A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed…
— James Payn
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