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War Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
- If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
- You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
- Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
- To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
- There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
- We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least,…
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
- There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
- Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has…
- The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want…
- The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
- 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…
- It is not a war. It is murder.
- We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding…
- The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
- Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation), and…
- The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare