"Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the……" — Howard Zinn
"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 Constitutions are intended to serve these interests."
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154 Quotes by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn has 154 quotes on this site.
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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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I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy…
— Amitabh Bachchan
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For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God…
— John Cleese
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This…
— Camille Claudel
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He…
— Jean Cocteau
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
— Virginia Woolf
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
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This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I've had this look for about a year. I usually grow this beard out around Christmas. I like to go…
— Marc Maron
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has…
— M. Scott Peck
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the…
— George Gissing
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