Norman Finkelstein Quotes

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

But as a player, you feel sad that at this level you are being singled out for the fact that I stood up for myself. I have not done anything wrong standing up for myself.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

I don't know who had it out for me, but somebody did.

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.

The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.

The fallacies of the new egalitarianism come largely from having ripped the notion of equality loose from its context. The result is to turn it into a principle vagrant and homeless, and identifiable in fact only if a quasi-theological context is unconsciously imported.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

No pain equals that of an injury inflicted under the pretense of just punishment.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

The English were so much abominated, that whatever their merit might be, they were deprived of all their offices, and strangers, though of inferior abilities, were put into their places.

The meanest worm that crawls upon the earth, when trampled upon, will endeavor to recoil and strike back, and I say that the guilt of the rebellion does not rest with these men [the Metis rebels] so much as those who provoked them.

If one were to be penalized in any way by one's superior, one would have no good words to say about that superior

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.