Occupation: Historian Birth: August 24, 1922 Death: January 27, 2010
[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the ….
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going th….
Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because ….
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s show….
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, ….
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 terrorizi….
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives..
The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the importa….
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyran….
I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doin….
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits..
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government..
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress..
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them..
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control..
The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, ….
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secu….
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroe….
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?.
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not on….
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and….