Quotes
Authors
Howard Zinn

"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 tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war."

-- Howard Zinn

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“Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.”

Source : Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.49, Random House
“Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.”
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”
“You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish”
“I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.”
“We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.”
“Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.”
“Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys.”

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