Howard Zinn Quotes About Terrorism

Quotes about: Terrorism

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

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Terrorist

• Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

  Howard Zinn

  Violence, Scared, Terrorism

  Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. December 11, 2009.

• Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Military, Home

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.38, Seven Stories Press

• We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to people in Third World countries whose resources are coveted by multinational corporations. That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism....

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Rights, Government

  "A People's History of the United States". Book by Howard Zinn, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1980.

• People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Ambition, People

• It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

  Howard Zinn

  People, Common Sense, Doe

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

• War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.235, Haymarket Books

• Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Self, Terrorism

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.153, City Lights Publishers

• War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Hundred

  "The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

• If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

  Howard Zinn

  Want, Terrorism, Ends

• I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Believe, People

  "A Just Cause, Not a Just War" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

• The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

  Howard Zinn

  Suicide, Giving, Bombers

  "Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

• Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2007). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.195, City Lights Books

• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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