Howard Zinn Quotes About Boundaries

Quotes about: Boundaries

• I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Mind, United States

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.606, Pan Macmillan

• Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Religious, Thinking, Racism

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.143, City Lights Books

• With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Smart

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

• There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Civilization, Realization, World

• Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Compassion

  "Dying for the Government" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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