Zinn Quotes

“Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.”
― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?”
― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized.”
― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.”
― Howard Zinn, Just War: by Howard Zinn

“I could only think one troubling thought: the police, the state, did the bidding of the holders of great wealth. How much freedom of speech and freedom of assembly you had depended on what class you were in.”
― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.”
― Howard Zinn, Just War: by Howard Zinn

“The government is an artificial creation, established by the people to defend everyone's equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And when the government does not fulfill that obligation, it is the right of the people, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, to 'alter or abolish' the government.”
― Howard Zinn, Just War: by Howard Zinn

“Even in Hell…there are no absolutes.”
― Sana Takeda, Monstress, Volume 8: Inferno