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Us Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but…
- Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that…
- It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says 'nucular' and 'misunderestimate'…
- The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to…
- September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world…
- Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of…
- One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
- If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and…
- There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a…
- It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.
- In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren,…
- Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in…
- Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t…
- Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically…
- Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is…
- The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the…
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
- It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- 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
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz