Quotes by : Howard Zinn

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich....

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

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

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.....

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

The essential ingredients of these struggles for justice are human beings who, if only for a moment,....

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some....

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing....

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who....

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?