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Armies usually aren't interested in wars. (Noam Chomsky)
Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. View quote
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The consistent anarchist, then, should be. View quote
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As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will. View quote
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But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? View quote
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Naturally, any conqueror is going to play one group against another. View quote
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Moral equivalence is a term of propaganda that was invented to try to prevent us from looking at the acts for which we are responsible. ...There is no such notion. View quote
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As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called "historical engineering," by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state policy. View quote
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If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. View quote
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The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned. View quote
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The U.S. has always insisted on its right to use force, whatever international law requires, and whatever international institutions decide. (Noam Chomsky)
The anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious. And for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow. View quote
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But it's very small as compared with the US-backed Israeli terrorism. View quote
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Lenin was a right-wing deviation of the socialist movement. View quote
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Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If you've resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, "You're an asshole," which maybe he or she is, and if you don't say, "That's idiotic," when you get a stupid assignment, you will gradually pass through the required filters. You will end up at a good college and eventually with a good job. View quote
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Iraq was responsible for terrible crimes in Kuwait, with several thousand killed and many tortured. But that is not war; rather, state terrorism, of the kind familiar among U.S. clients. The second phase of the conflict began with the U.S.-U.K. attack. View quote
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I consider it immoral to be a supporter of a power system. View quote
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The list of the states that have joined the coalition against terror. View quote
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Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell. View quote
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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. View quote
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As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists. (Noam Chomsky)
The war is simply an obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us who have allowed it to go on and on with endless fury and destruction - all of us who would have remained silent, had stability and order been secured. View quote
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Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted. View quote
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There is a history of Christianity: the first three centuries of Christianity, it was a radical pacifist religion, which is why it was persecuted. It was the religion of the poor and the suffering, and Jesus was the symbol of the poor and the suffering. ... In the fourth century, it was taken over by the Roman Empire. Emperor Constantine turned the church into the religion of the persecutors. View quote
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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God [http://www.bible.org/netbible/deu25.htm told] them. View quote
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