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" You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. "

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" When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like. "

" One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?' "

" The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. "

" Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. "

" Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights. "

" I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience. "

" The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. "

" The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them. "

" I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR. "

" I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times. "

" It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy. "

" Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured. "

" Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. "

" I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. "

" Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. "

" I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. "

" I like Gramsci. He's an important person. "

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" In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining. "

" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. "

" Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it. "

" Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. "

" Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings. "

" The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers. "

" 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. "

" Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don't agree with, like bombing. "

" One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses. "

" The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment. "

" I didn't pay my taxes for years. "

" I've been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan's vicious crimes in Manchuria and China. "

" You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them. "