"One certain effect of war is to diminish……" — Howard Zinn

"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."

— Howard Zinn

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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.
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history…
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the…
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you…
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the…
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
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 Anti War Quotes

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman. — Alfred Adler

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