Norman G. Finkelstein Quotes
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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
— Norman Finkelstein
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
— Norman Finkelstein
I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.
— Norman Finkelstein
Lust is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable; love is like a warrior with no weaknesses, unconquerable.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
— Norman Finkelstein
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
— Norman Finkelstein
Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
— Norman Finkelstein
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
— Norman Finkelstein
The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
— Norman Finkelstein
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
— Norman Finkelstein
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
— Norman Finkelstein
Teaching is in my bones. I love to teach.
— Norman Finkelstein
The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.
— Norman Finkelstein
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.
— Norman Finkelstein
I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.
— Norman Finkelstein
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.
— Norman Finkelstein
I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.
— Norman Finkelstein
Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.
— Norman Finkelstein
Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.
— Norman Finkelstein
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
— Norman Finkelstein
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.
— Norman Finkelstein
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
— James Russell Lowell
I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.
— Norman Finkelstein
Love the dream to live the dream.
— Debasish Mridha
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
— Norman Finkelstein
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap
— Dolly Parton
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
— Norman Finkelstein
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
— Desiderius Erasmus