Chomsky Terrorism Quotes

#1. We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those definitions it follows instantly that the United States is the leading terrorist state in the world.

Noam Chomsky

#2. When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him.

Max Lucado

#3. Counterinsurgency - a standard term for terrorism that we direct.

Noam Chomsky

#4. The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#5. If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

#6. Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.

Noam Chomsky

#7. In accord with the reigning single standard, the major terrorist atrocities - or worse, aggression - are excluded from the canon of international terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.

Noam Chomsky

#9. I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

Calvin Klein

#10. Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

Noam Chomsky

#11. The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

Noam Chomsky

#13. Everyone's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

#14. Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Hugh Hopper

#15. Am I crazy or am I a genius? I don't think I'm either.

John Lennon

#16. The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#17. Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#18. My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Blaise Aguera Y Arcas

#19. I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.

Philip Treacy

#20. Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#21. There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#22. Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

#23. It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#24. Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them - and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.

Trevor Noah

#25. A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#26. Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

Salman Rushdie

#27. The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

#28. How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

Albert Camus

#29. The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#30. It's wonderful to be part of a family that cares so much about others.

Marta Kristen

#31. Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon
she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son
for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.
Do you smell a fault?

William Shakespeare

#32. What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

Duncan D. Hunter

#33. Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

W. H. Auden