"In the long run, the oppressor is also……" — Howard Zinn
"In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims."
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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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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.…
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering…
— Bob Beauprez
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing…
— Hermann Hesse
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but…
— Paul Dirac
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe.…
— Arthur Koestler
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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the…
— Fred Hoyle
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects…
— George Wilson
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man…
— William Lyon Phelps
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion,…
— Adolf Hitler
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the…
— Ray Davies
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There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to…
— James Garner
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