Howard Zinn Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Reality, Alive, World

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.9, Routledge

• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

• And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.10, Routledge

• The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world." (p. 65)

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Reality, Two

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.65, City Lights Books

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

  Howard Zinn

  Government, Profound, People

• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Moving, Mean

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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