"The real goal of politics has to be……" — Norman Finkelstein

"The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong."

— Norman Finkelstein

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46 Quotes by Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War…
I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be…
There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's…
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The…
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the…
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the…
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned…
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott,…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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