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" The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide. "
Noam Chomsky
Response
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Work
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" To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. "
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Nature
American
Draft
" 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 Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up. "
Noam Chomsky
Two
Bank
Commitment
" Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society. "
Noam Chomsky
Supreme Court
Free
Power
" The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan. "
Noam Chomsky
Joke
Gone
Security
" It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction. "
Noam Chomsky
Trying
Society
Powerful
" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "
Noam Chomsky
War
Remembering
Started
" Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. "
Noam Chomsky
Pearl
Attack
Example
" Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. "
Noam Chomsky
Disappear
Relief
Breathe
" The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously. "
Noam Chomsky
Project
America
Construction
" One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. "
Noam Chomsky
Politics
Best
Say
" When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion. "
Noam Chomsky
End
Away
Right
" 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
" If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. "
Noam Chomsky
Freedom
Believe
Politics
" Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment. "
Noam Chomsky
Liberal
Socialism
Enlightenment
" There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense. "
Noam Chomsky
Which
Record
Theory
" Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. "
Noam Chomsky
Quality
Liberal
Growth
" Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment. "
Noam Chomsky
Only
Ignoring
Environment
" American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898. "
Noam Chomsky
Cuba
American
Hawaii
" 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
" The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! "
Noam Chomsky
Place
Communication
Speed
" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "
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Like
Way
Stanford
" When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.' "
Noam Chomsky
You
Intelligence
Know
" I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. "
Noam Chomsky
Choose
Dictatorship
Thought
" From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing. "
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Manufacturing
Driven
Change
" In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. "
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Country
Moving
Technology
" Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. "
Noam Chomsky
Intentions
Hidden
Actions
" In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.' "
Noam Chomsky
Respect
Stress
Trial
" It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. "
Noam Chomsky
Security
Virtual
Action
" Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression. "
Noam Chomsky
Long
Society
Success