Noam Chomsky quotes - page 20

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate. (Noam Chomsky)
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. View quote
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. View quote
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Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich. View quote
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It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. View quote
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. View quote
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The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well. View quote
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In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval. View quote
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From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. View quote
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If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. View quote
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Palestinians have no wealth or power. (Noam Chomsky)
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. View quote
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In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. View quote
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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. View quote
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Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. View quote
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Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. View quote
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The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. View quote
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Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. View quote
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Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against. View quote
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One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. View quote
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. (Noam Chomsky)
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. View quote
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Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real. View quote
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Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy. View quote
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In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. View quote
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