Noam Chomsky Short Quotes

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

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It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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It doesn't matter what we cover, it matters what you discover.

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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

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My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

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You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.

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In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

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Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

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We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.

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I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

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In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

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It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

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When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it's the toughest and most brutal who win.

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Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

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Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

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Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

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We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

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Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

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On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

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Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

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The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

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The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

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Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, What kind of peace?

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