The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.
Noam ChomskyI don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.
Noam ChomskyThe printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.
Noam Chomsky[Mikhail] Gorbachev said that he would agree to the unification of Germany, and even adherence of Germany to NATO, which was quite a concession, if NATO didn't move to East Germany. And [George] Bush and [James] Baker promised verbally, that's critical, verbally that NATO would not expand "one inch to the east," which meant East Germany. Nobody was talking about anything farther at the time. They would not expand one inch to the east. Now that was a verbal promise. It was never written. NATO immediately expanded to East Germany.
Noam ChomskyInternational affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.
Noam Chomsky