498 Quotes by Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

We tried to educate ourselves. I would invite the girls to my rooms, and we took turns reading poetry in English to improve our understanding of the language. One of our favorites was Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt," and another . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . . "Rise like lions after slumberIn unvanquishable number!Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many, they are few!

How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

The human consequences of Reagan's budget cuts went deep. For instance, Social Security disability benefits were terminated for 350,000 people. A war hero of Vietnam, Roy Benavidez, who had been presented with the Congressional Medal Of Honor by Reagan, 'Was told by Social Security officials that the shrapnel pieces in his heart, arms, and leg did not prevent him from working. Appearing before a congressional committee, he denounced Reagan.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.