"Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if……" — Norman Finkelstein
"Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult."
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Norman Finkelstein
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46 Quotes by Norman Finkelstein
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September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War…
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I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be…
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There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's…
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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The…
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The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the…
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War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
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International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
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They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
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There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the…
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Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
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Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned…
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Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott,…
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
— Franklin P. Adams
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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I have the courage of my convictions.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
— Saint Basil
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
— Barbara Boxer
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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