Noam Chomsky : (16)

" Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles. " - Noam Chomsky

" If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature. " - Noam Chomsky

" Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. " - Noam Chomsky

" In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival. " - Noam Chomsky

" The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media. " - Noam Chomsky

" In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat. " - Noam Chomsky

" Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower. " - Noam Chomsky

" I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. " - Noam Chomsky

" The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. " - Noam Chomsky

" It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. " - Noam Chomsky