"These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into……" — Howard Zinn
"These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls."
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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 Alliance Quotes
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of…
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance…
— Tony Blair
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology.…
— John O. Brennan
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or…
— H. Rap Brown
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom…
— James Buchanan
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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one…
— James Buchan
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I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of…
— Madeleine Albright
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners…
— Fred Allen
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to…
— Sun Tzu
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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