"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide,……" — Howard Zinn
"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."
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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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More Disobedience Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom…
— Erich Fromm
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While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I…
— John Woolman
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Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
— Hasan of Basra
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended…
— Alexander Hamilton
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He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has…
— Martin Sheen
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I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.
— Ellen Page
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Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used…
— Stephen Colbert
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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people…
— Edward James Olmos
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I call upon all of you to wage a second American nonviolent revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand…
— Larry Klayman
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A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer…
— Kenneth Anger
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