All Noam Chomsky Quotes
- Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. American
- The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in… Bush
- Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror. Acted
- If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened. Control
- The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military… Afraid
- Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. America
- When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that… Calling
- Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. Communist
- If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my… Amazonian
- Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen… Account
- Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence… Brought
- Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. Armed
- My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out… Authority
- The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France,… Achievement
- In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were… All
- Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. Carefully
- 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. America
- In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. African
- Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. Breathe
- Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It… Affairs