"Those who had demanded no more than an……" — Noam Chomsky
"Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
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Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel…
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound…
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued -…
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You…
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in…
— James Buchan
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens…
— Kofi Annan
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they…
— Barry McCaffrey
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To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki,…
— Juan Cole
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing…
— Ziauddin Yousafzai
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Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
— Assar Lindbeck
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