Norman Finkelstein Quotes

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Norman Finkelstein

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • American
  • War
  • Key

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Achieve

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Peace
  • Kind
  • Difficult

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Power
  • War

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
  • Believe
  • War

• For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Love
  • Truth
  • War

• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Career
  • Government

• Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Peace
  • Friend
  • Marine

• Do you have to fight that war? Do you have to strap Assault riffles And pebbles of bullets? There are men and women Trained to fight that war, You are a town crier.

  

  Christopher Okigbo
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Country
  • Real
  • War

• I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.

  

  John Cena
  • Kids
  • Pride

• I was never a critic.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Critics

• Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

  

  Norman Finkelstein
  • War
  • Peace
  • Truism