"The power of a bold idea uttered publicly……" — Howard Zinn
"The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured."
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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 Bold Quotes
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one of 727 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe…
— Michele Bachmann
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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
— Francis Bacon
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In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
— Bob Beauprez
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.
— Cate Blanchett
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
— Mary J. Blige
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
— Alan Alda
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