Civilians Quote by Noam Chomsky Download Open image “Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.” — Noam Chomsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilians Innocent Killing Terrorism Wanton War
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit. — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation. — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim. — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas.… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may always be… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who… — Jan Eliasson Copy Share Image
[General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image