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America Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
- In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
- Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences…
- The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.
- Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
- The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies…
- The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
- Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
- 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.
- In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the extension of formal democracy was accompanied by an increasing disillusionment about…
- The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which…
- The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project…
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon