498 Quotes by Howard Zinn

A Yale professor of military history, Micheal Howard, writing in the New York Times )January 28, 1991) quoted the military strategist Clausewitz approvingly: "The fact that a bloody slaughter is a horrifying act must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: "The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical sense informs them they can do so without being destroyed.

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.