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" Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. "
Noam Chomsky
Long
Diplomacy
Enough
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" In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces. "
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" If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. "
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You
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" There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived. "
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" Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. "
Noam Chomsky
Liberal
Socialism
Enlightenment
" Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. "
Noam Chomsky
International
Law
Attack
" In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' "
Noam Chomsky
Respect
Stress
Trial
" Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. "
Noam Chomsky
Assumptions
Principle
American
" Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed. "
Noam Chomsky
Conflict
Stand
Been
" The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. "
Noam Chomsky
Intelligence
Back
Late
" I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression. "
Noam Chomsky
Against
Been
Courageous
" There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. "
Noam Chomsky
Information
Body
Policy
" After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. "
Noam Chomsky
Protest
Days
Sense
" I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. "
Noam Chomsky
Stand
History
Just
" Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. "
Noam Chomsky
Home
College
Family
" I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. "
Noam Chomsky
Intellectual
Working
People
" In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. "
Noam Chomsky
Business
I Am
Democrats
" There's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger. "
Noam Chomsky
Anger
World
Government
" Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good. "
Noam Chomsky
Responsible
Science
Everyone
" In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. "
Noam Chomsky
Apartheid
More
Opposite
" I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that. "
Noam Chomsky
Book
Get
Grammar
" The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. "
Noam Chomsky
Protect
Security
Aggression
" Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. "
Noam Chomsky
Moral
Security
Isolation
" The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away. "
Noam Chomsky
Welcome
Just
Go
" The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. "
Noam Chomsky
Bible
False
People
" The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. "
Noam Chomsky
Community
People
You
" Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act. "
Noam Chomsky
Few
Questioning
Right
" All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "
Noam Chomsky
Pressure
Decisions
Culture
" It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos. "
Noam Chomsky
CIA
Long
Presence
" There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure. "
Noam Chomsky
Other
Because
Knows
" There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11. "
Noam Chomsky
Split
Critical
Been