Noam Chomsky Quotes And Sayings

The Appropriate Response To Terrorist Crimes Is Police Work, Which Has Been Successful Worldwide.

Occasionally The Conflict Between 'What We Stand For' And 'What We Do' Has Been Forthrightly Addressed.

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.

U.s. Analysts Estimate That Russian Military Expenditures Have Tripled During The Bush-putin Years, In Large Measure A Predicted Reaction To The Bush Administration's Militancy And Aggressiveness.

The U.s. Has Strategic And Economic Interests In Southeast Asia That Must Be Secured. Holding Indochina Is Essential To Securing These Interests. Therefore, We Must Hold Indochina.

Science, As Everyone Knows, Is Responsible, Moderate, Unsentimental, And Otherwise Good.

Libertarian Socialism Is Properly To Be Regarded As The Inheritor Of The Liberal Ideals Of The Enlightenment.

The Argument That Resistance To The War Should Remain Strictly Nonviolent Seems To Me Overwhelming.

Sooner Or Later, Jihadist-style Terror And Wmd Are Going To Come Together And The Consequences Could Be Horrendous.

An Individual's Refusal To Carry Out The Criminal Acts Of His Government Sets The Stage, In The Most Effective Way Possible, For The Attempt To Demonstrate The Criminal Nature Of These Acts.

The U.n. Charter Bars The Threat Of Force.

The Government Of Israel Doesn't Like The Kinds Of Things I Say, Which Puts Them Into The Same Category As Every Other Government In The World.

In The United States, We Can Do Almost Anything We Want. It's Not Like Egypt, Where You're Going To Get Murdered By The Security Forces.

Obama's Policies Have Been Approximately The Same As Bush's, Though There Have Been Some Slight Differences, But That's Not A Great Surprise. The Democrats Supported Bush's Policies.

The U.s. Is Just In A Class By Itself In Military Expenses. It Basically Matches The Rest Of The World, And It's Far More Advanced.

Obama, Of Course, Outspent Mccain.

By 1960, The South Africans Knew That They Were Becoming A Pariah State.

Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously.

Obama Has Succeeded In Descending Even Below George W. Bush In Approval In The Arab World. It's Minuscule, Few Percent.

The Invasion Of Iraq, Particularly, Gave A Big Shot In The Arm To The Jihadi Extremists.

Government Actually Grew During The Reagan Years.

I Didn't Pay My Taxes For Years.

Clinton Himself Acted In Ways Which Increased The Threat Of Terror.

Reagan Was Extreme. Beginning Of His Administration, One Of The First Things Was To Call In Scabs - Hadn't Been Done For A Long Time, And It's Illegal In Most Countries - In The Air Controller Strike.

Armed Attack Has A Definition In International Law. It Means Sudden, Overwhelming, Instantaneous Ongoing Attack.

It Makes Sense For Japan To Pursue A More Independent Role In The World, Following Latin America And Others In Freeing Itself From U.s. Domination.

The U.s. Increasingly Has Taken On The Characteristics Of What We Describe As 'Failed States.'

The Intellectual Tradition Is One Of Servility To Power, And If I Didn't Betray It I'd Be Ashamed Of Myself.

In General, I Think, U.s. Policies Remain Constant, Going Back To The Second World War. But The Capacity To Implement Them Is Declining.

In 1962, War Was Avoided By Khrushchev's Willingness To Accept Kennedy's Hegemonic Demands.

Palestinians Have No Wealth Or Power.

The First Scholarly Edition Of Magna Carta Was Published By The Eminent Jurist William Blackstone. It Was Not An Easy Task. There Was No Good Text Available.

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.

People Seem To Know About May Day Everywhere Except Where It Began, Here In The United States Of America. That's Because Those In Power Have Done Everything They Can To Erase Its Real Meaning.

Congressional Republicans Are Dismantling The Limited Environmental Protections Initiated By Richard Nixon, Who Would Be Something Of A Dangerous Radical In Today's Political Scene.

Colombia Has Been The Leading Western Recipient Of U.s. Arms And Training As Violence Has Grown Through The '90s.

Pre-emptive War Might Fall Within The Framework Of International Law.

Is The Iranian Record Of Intervention And Terror Worse Than That Of The U.s.?

It Was During The Reagan Years That Defiance Of International Law And The U.n. Charter Became Entirely Open.

Propaganda Is To A Democracy What The Bludgeon Is To A Totalitarian State.

It Doesn't Take Long To Become Aware Of The Presence Of The Cia In Laos.

The First Democratic Revolution Was England In The 1640s.

The 'Free-floating Intellectual' May Occupy Himself With Problems Because Of Their Inherent Interest And Importance, Perhaps To Little Effect.

You Never Need An Argument Against The Use Of Violence, You Need An Argument For It.

The Latin American Debt That Reached Crisis Levels From 1982 Would Have Been Sharply Reduced By Return Of Flight Capital - In Some Cases, Overcome, Though All Figures Are Dubious For These Secret And Often Illegal Operations.

Nationalism Has A Way Of Oppressing Others.

The Japanese Bombing Of Pearl Harbor Led To Many Very Good Things. If You Follow The Trail, It Led To Kicking Europeans Out Of Asia - That Saved Tens Of Millions Of Lives In India Alone.

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.

As International Support For Obama's Decision To Attack Syria Has Collapsed, Along With The Credibility Of Government Claims, The Administration Has Fallen Back On A Standard Pretext For War Crimes When All Else Fails: The Credibility Of The Threats Of The Self-designated Policeman Of The World.

Language Is A Process Of Free Creation; Its Laws And Principles Are Fixed, But The Manner In Which The Principles Of Generation Are Used Is Free And Infinitely Varied. Even The Interpretation And Use Of Words Involves A Process Of Free Creation.