Peter Kuznick quotes

“We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.

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“People think in narrow, constrained, constipated ways about the world. They can't imagine that the world could be different. Not like the dreamers who actually see a different world, a better world.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : "Oliver Stone on War, George Bush, Ken Burns, and His New Show". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 14, 2012.

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“People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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“History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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“China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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“A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.”
-- Peter Kuznick

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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“We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.”
-- Peter Kuznick

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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”

“Public opinion in this country is everything.”