Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.Noam Chomsky
Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by 'sophisticated' methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.Noam Chomsky
The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.Noam Chomsky
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.Noam Chomsky
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.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
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.Noam Chomsky
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.Thomas Edison
