Quote by Howard Zinn
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executi

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn

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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. – Howard Zinn

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When people dont understand that the government doesnt have their interests in mind, theyre more susceptible to go to war. – Howard Zinn

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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. – Sitting Bull

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This is the pain pacemaker. Ive got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. Its tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? – Jerry Lewis

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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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Power without a nations confidence is nothing. – Catherine the Great

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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! – William Shakespeare

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