"The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status."

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Source : "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.

Norman Finkelstein

#Military Quotes #Successful Quotes #Rights Quotes

“That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.”
“Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.”
“What a society deems important is enshrined in its art”
“I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.”
“My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.”
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
“I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.”
“The Republican Party has become more conservative. The Democratic Party has become marginally more liberal. There's almost no overlap in the middle, ideological overlap, in either house of Congress. That leaves moderates homeless. We have had a hollowing out of the middle in the U.S. Congress. There's less opportunity for compromise.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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