War Quotes by Noam Chomsky

A siege is an act of war.

— Noam Chomsky

It is not a war. It is murder.

— Noam Chomsky

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

— 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.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.

— Noam Chomsky

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed…

— Noam Chomsky

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred…

— Noam Chomsky

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than…

— Noam Chomsky

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

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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…

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Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

— Noam Chomsky

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.…

— Noam Chomsky

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of…

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Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in…

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A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war…

— Noam Chomsky

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary…

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Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years.…

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Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take…

— Noam Chomsky

The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons…

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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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George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States…

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“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the…

— Noam Chomsky

We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within…

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“So before and during the war, the Bush administration had to build up an image in people's minds of Iraq as a…

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The U.S. directed the war against South Vietnam. There was a political settlement in 1954. But in the late '50's the United…

— Noam Chomsky

When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the…

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

— 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.

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky