Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky on the Iraq Invasion and Its Risks
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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."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by Noam Chomsky about False Prophets in the Bible
"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
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky on the Role of Chemistry
"Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky Quote on Gaza Conflict 2008
"In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHuman Nature and Evolution – Noam Chomsky
"Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJohn Lewis Gaddis and Cold War Studies – Noam Chomsky Quote
"John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkIran’s Deterrent Strategy and Geopolitical Analysis by Noam Chomsky
"Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky Quote on Humanitarian Intervention
"The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by Noam Chomsky about Dr. Karel Culik, Mathematician and Linguist
"Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote by Noam Chomsky on Arpanet and Nicaragua
"In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!"
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky on Private Airlines and Military Aircraft
"Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ride on a modified bomber."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkThe Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor – Noam Chomsky
"The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkEducation in Wealthy Countries – Noam Chomsky
"The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkRepression of Kurds in the 1990s – Noam Chomsky
"By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside."
Noam Chomsky