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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
The study suggests that weight problems could cancel out life-extending benefits of medical advances in the coming decades.
— Eric A. Finkelstein
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
Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.
— 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
rather than having it transferred to them through rote memorization or a virtual intravenous tube.
— Jonathan E. Finkelstein
Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.
— 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
I'm an old fan of the Negro spirituals.
— Norman Finkelstein
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
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
— Norman Finkelstein
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
— Norman Finkelstein
Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.
— Louis Finkelstein
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.
— Norman Finkelstein
[A]n important new book ... Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
— Daniel Finkelstein
I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.
— Louis Finkelstein
We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.
— Louis Finkelstein
The road to success, and by that I mean ... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
— Louis 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
Later, I collaborated with a number of wonderful co-authors, all of whom are friends as well: Stan Finkelstein,
— Eric Von Hippel