English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Howard Zinn Quotes

History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.

Howard Zinn

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. Don DeLillo
There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa. Sepp Blatter
Paul Cezanne quote: "I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can..."
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. Paul Cezanne
Alan Dean Foster quote: "How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the..."
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. Alan Dean Foster
Paulo Coelho quote: "Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can..."
Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him. Paulo Coelho
The bird looked much smaller dead than alive. Jody felt a little mean pain in his stomach, so he took out his pocketknife and cut off the bird's head. Then he disemboweled it, and took off its wings; and finally he threw all the pieces into the brush. He didn't care about the bird, or its life, but he knew what older people would say if they had seen him kill it; he was ashamed because of their potential opinion. John Steinbeck
Jerry Cantrell quote: "Times change and you have to adapt."
Times change and you have to adapt. Jerry Cantrell
Bruce Jackson quote: "Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely..."
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Bruce Jackson
Francois Villon quote: "My days are gone a-wandering."
My days are gone a-wandering. Francois Villon
William Shakespeare quote: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself..."
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating. Karl Marx
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. Sigmund Freud
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl."
Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl. Jeanette Winterson
Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know? George Saunders
Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. William Blake