War Quotes by Noam Chomsky

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

— Noam Chomsky

It is not a war. It is murder.

— Noam Chomsky

A siege is an act of war.

— Noam Chomsky

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

— Noam Chomsky

“It's not the generals, it's the civilians who authorise and organise the worst war crimes.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war”

— Noam Chomsky

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

— Noam Chomsky

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

— Noam Chomsky

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

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In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

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To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

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It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on…

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What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and…

— Noam Chomsky

US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular…

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Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people…

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In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second…

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Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example,…

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Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a…

— Noam Chomsky

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world…

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France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even…

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One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential…

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There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents,…

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Remember that in any major nuclear war, the first strike destroys the country that attacks; it's been known for years. The first…

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The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth…

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There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called…

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Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning…

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On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an…

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What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago,…

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...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people…

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“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because…

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If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the…

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“I mean, remember what the Vietnam War was fought for, after all. The Vietnam War was fought to prevent Vietnam from becoming…

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The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all…

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

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For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

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On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

— Noam Chomsky