Adventure Quote by Noam Chomsky

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail,…

— Noam Chomsky

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a…

— Henry Giroux

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however…

— H. L. Mencken

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of…

— Isabel Paterson

“For among the many things that warfare does is temporarily define the entire enemy population as superfluous, as expendable—a redefinition that must take place…

— David E. Stannard

Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the…

— Andrew Tudor

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and…

— Peter Maurer

The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of…

— Eduardo Galeano

As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear…

— Henry Giroux

Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of…

— George W. Bush

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

— Rene Balcer

In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the…

— Andrew Solomon