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Country Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
- In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a…
- For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite…
- States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent…
- Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the…
- Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to…
- What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine…
- In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was…
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
- It's not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures- it's inevitable. But unless the process that is…
- Pakistan is not a unified country.
- The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
- 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,…
- In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the…
- Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
- When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to…
- The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying…
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- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- 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
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood