Noam Chomsky quotes - page 17

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment. (Noam Chomsky)
By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. View quote
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To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. View quote
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Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. View quote
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States are not moral agents. View quote
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The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. View quote
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. View quote
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence. View quote
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Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does. View quote
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Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower. View quote
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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. (Noam Chomsky)
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine. 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. View quote
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If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. View quote
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One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' View quote
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The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. View quote
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane. View quote
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In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years. View quote
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. View quote
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states. View quote
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. (Noam Chomsky)
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions. View quote
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The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects. View quote
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My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. View quote
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. View quote
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