Occupation: Historian Birth: August 24, 1922 Death: January 27, 2010
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive of t….
Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to….
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 worr….
We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these things to peo….
If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday..
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what ….
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American peo….
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes..
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and t….
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country..
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world..
People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave..
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression..
Education can, and should be, dangerous..
We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to r….
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out ….
If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists.
I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were….
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and….
I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting milit….
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 ….