Threat Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

— Noam Chomsky

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all…

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As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

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The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of…

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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.

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Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become…

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Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by…

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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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[With] military threats, you can see them actually, you can imagine it. People don't think about it enough. But if you think…

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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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I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a…

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As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen…

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The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any…

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On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass…

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One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

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Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,…

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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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Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control…

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There are simple things which would make sense. Take, say, weatherization, which would make a big cut in the unemployment rate. That's…

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Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is…

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It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker…

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You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the…

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This crazy ban on the seven states, where we can't accept immigrants, almost every analyst points out the obvious: It just increases…

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In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that…

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Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in…

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The threat is that the public will know what the government is up to. Any system of power is going to want…

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In America, we will use force whenever we like against anyone we regard as a potential threat, and maybe we will delegate…

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The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . .…

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If you look at US internal documents, they explain very clearly what the threat of Cuba was. So, back in the early…

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Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's…

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Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:…

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It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I…

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Moves toward sovereignty in Iraq stimulate pressures first for human rights among the bitterly repressed Shi'ite population but also toward some degree…

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The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the…

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If you want to find weapons of destruction, you can find them all over the place. Take, say, Israel. There is a…

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The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the…

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Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention…

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